[CALIBK12] Flash drives

[Spielman, Kathy]

Sorry, I sure didn't mean our district didn't protect our computers, they do. We have Panda that runs constantly. Every computer in our district is protected. The district is vigilant, and still we had a breech. We have just gone to the "U" drive to make it easy on everyone and it is! We love it. Kids can work on projects and papers from any computer anywhere.
As far as e-mail, we had kids e-mailing all day. Our computers are needed for school work. We do have 3 computer labs and the computers in the library for student use. This works great for us.
 
Kathy Spielman
Library Media Technician
Yorba Linda Middle School
4777 Casa Loma Ave.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
kspielman at pylusd.org
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu]On Behalf Of Jamie Pruden
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 2:09 PM
To: California K-12 Librarians Discussion
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] Flash drives


Hi Kathy, 

This is a larger issue than just flash drives... if your school district has computers running Microsoft Windows and does not have virus software on every machine, they have a huge problem on their hands. Viruses can be spread as easily through a file on an ftp server (kid uploads a file to the server, launches the document on a school computer, Boom... they have the virus) as on any other type of media... the right answer is to have the virus software on every machine. If they plead that they have no money, there are free versions that work just great.

Ugh. Denying e-mail because of fear of viruses is a joke...

smiles,
Jamie


On May 1, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Spielman, Kathy wrote:


Our PTA sold them for $6.00 years ago. Then the kids started bringing in very inappropriate stuff on the flash drives. One was a virus that shut down every computer in one of our high schools. Now, our tech dept created a drive kids save to and is accessible from school and home with an ftp address. No problems since then. Kids are not allowed any device or e-mail. Of course, some teachers still let them sneak it in.


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