Paranoia and Worms

[Acquana]

Whoo hoo! Check out who's back! ^_^

I just wanna complain about upped security at my school for a moment ... SCAD is horribly paranoid about anything that comes along, so after the big Windows stink this summer they managed to make it so no one could get online AT ALL unless they took their computer to the computer labs and had them inspected. Plus they lied on their flyer about this, which read that it'd be ok to make appoinments for someone to come up to the dorm room to inspect the machine. Nope, they lie. A week after my roommate and I made appointments they BOTHERED to call us back and say that no one was going to come up to our room.

Well, finally we have internet up again. I was getting sick of checking my email in the labs. Lesse ... Oh, they've also managed to block any and all filesharing programs on their server. Which even makes it difficult to share over AIM. Sheesh.

Well, whatever. I'm back, happy to be, and I've updated my storyhour.

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

Yikes! Sounds like your school certainly had a tough time with the problems of the summer. I know UIUC had something like 43% of its network infected at the start of the school year, but we weren't THAT drastic. All of the ports in our rooms were shut off until you had a net tech come to your room and install the necessary patches, but they actually DID come around and visit your dorms. I think there would be far too many angry computer-users here if everyone had to have their machine physically serached in a computer lab. (Not to mention I doubt that they compensate the net techs very well anyway, and physicaclly checking tens of thousands of computers would royally suck for them). In any event, welcome back to ENWorld!