[WEB4LIB] RE: Testimony re: flash pens

[Robin Boulton]

We allow floppies, CDs and USB drives. Seems to me the internet access is
the biggest risk, and since that's the primary reason we have public
computers, it's unavoidable. We use Norton antivirus (although I'm probably
going to change to something else next year) and DeepFreeze to keep the PCs
as clean as possible. I'm also in the process of installing and rolling out
the enterprise version of SpySweeper, which should reduce the spyware
annoyance factor. If all that fails we would just reimage an affected
machine... but (touch wood) we haven't had any major problems so far in two
years of unrestricted patron use of our Tech Center PCs. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of David King
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:24 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Testimony re: flash pens
> 
> We've done away with floppies, and have gone with CD and USB access to
> patron's files. Seems to be working so far!
> 
> David King
> Kansas City Public Library
> 816-701-3400, ext. 2503
> davidking at kclibrary.org
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Dan Lester
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:12 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Testimony re: flash pens
> 
> Monday, August 30, 2004, 10:48:22 AM, you wrote:
> 
> SG> I have a question about the flash drives for those of you in public
> SG> libraries...are you allowing your patrons to use them on your public
> 
> SG> access computers? What are you doing about security and viruses?
> 
> Our university library, which has internet computers available to anyone
> without logging in, disables all USB connectivity on those computers.
> 
> We're reconsidering this policy due to demand from students, but so far
> that demand hasn't reached critical mass, so we "computer guys"
> are stalling until we're forced into it.  Actually, that demand may go
> away as more and more students get laptops, which they can connect to
> the net via wired or wireless connections in our building. Those
> connections do require authentication.
> 
> dan
> 
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