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OSXFAQ Editorial
UC Santa Barbara Bans Windows 2k/NT In Student Dormitories - Hell YES !!
By Thomas Vincent
Recently UC Santa Barbara took the extraordinary step of banning
Windows 2000 and Windows NT from student dormitories after incidents of
viruses, port scanning, and denial of service attacks. According to the
notice from UCSB staff posted on there web site "we have to consider
the overall health of our network when dealing with vulnerable
operating systems, virus protection, and network security threats." The
notice also goes on to point that while UCSB ResNet (the organization
on the UCSB campus that handles the student dormitories.) believes that
Windows 2000 can be securely deployed, this is not likely to happen in
the student dormitories.
This is a big step for a organization to take. The notice should put
everyone on notice, not just Microsoft.
What does this mean?
This means that now there is precedence for a university to ban a OS,
that easily could have been Mac OS X. The school paper picked up on
this story and pointed that thirty copies of home edition at the
student rate had been purchased in the last month. This announcement is
just another in a string of security black eyes for Microsoft including
one where one of the worlds most influential IT analyst groups, the
Gartner Group. Came out and said that Microsoft was not taking security
seriously. While Windows XP is more secure then Windows 2000 and or
Windows NT out of the box. You still have to remain vigilant with the
huge number of security related patch's that have been released for
Windows XP since its retail release.
What can you do?
When you run Mac OS X out of the box with its default configuration
there are no remote services turned on. Which provides for a very
secure situation from a remote access perspective. If you want to go
the extra mile download a utility like Brickhouse or go into the
Sharing control panel and turn on Mac OS X's built in firewall. Along
with keeping your machine up to date via Apple's Software Updates, you
can make your Mac OS X machine secure enough to thwart the majority of
maliciousness on the internet that would attempt to commandeer your
machine for nefarious uses.
Cheers,
Thomas Vincent
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