[Web4lib] Re: Info Week article re: portable drives (was) Allowing portable Firefox

[travelinlibrarian.8248287 at bloglines.com]

And, yes I'm repeating myself, this would prevent me from running Portable
Firefox or other portable app, would it not?

Michael Sauers
Internet Trainer,
BCR

--- Robert Sullivan" <robert.g.sullivan at gmail.com wrote:
> If the
library has adequate antivirus protection and uses some means
> of preventing
execution of any software on a removable drive (we use
> Trust-No-Exe), then
it's possible to provide access to any data files
> without the support and
security issues posed by non-library software.
> 
> That's going to inconvenience
some people who have pictures on a CD
> which uses a slideshow program to
display them, or a textbook CD which
> uses a shell program to display PDFs,
but we work around that.