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Sunbelt Viper Enterprise
Dartful Dodger:
We have a new antivirus program Sunbelt Viper Enterprise. They installed it today and it started a system scan at noon. It’s scheduled to scan everyday at noon. I tried to pause the scan and reschedule it for midnight, but it says I don’t have permission to make those changes. Does any of you tech guys know what this program is and who has permission and how much permission do they have. Having limited access to software on my machine makes me very paranoid.
The tech gal who installed it is very sick. She was coughing and hacking on my computer during the install so I don’t want her to come over her and mess with it anymore.
...and yes, I see the irony of her spreading a virus by installing an antivirus program.
ahofle:
They do that at my workplace as well. Most enterprise anti-virus programs have some sort of centralized 'console' that allows IT to remotely administer everyone's machines. Assuming you are using some flavor of Windows, typically domain administrators have this privilege. If you go to the 'Local Users and Groups' and check out your Administrator group, there is most likely some domain administrator in there. If you are also an administrator to your machine, you can remove the domain admin from that group, but they will most likely be able to tell (updates to your machine will then fail).
lanman31337:
Should have used Cheeseburger Antipasta antivirus.
Have you talked to the IT department about it?
You shouldn't worry about what they install on your work computer. As long as you keep your nose clean you'll be fine. As an IT guy, there's reasons users don't have full access to everything on company computers.
Dartful Dodger:
Our IT person asked me what programs I was running because she got a bunch of Malice ware warnings from my machine. I was opening and closing Photoshop, After Effects and Flash, every time I would restart one of those programs I would get the usual “This program is attempting to blah blah blah….”, and I would hit ok/allow.
She knows every time this thing warns me, so I'm not sure what else she knows.
I don't care enough to do anything to block her. I've got a little bit of a premadana complex. They'll never find anyone as good as me to work for as little as I do and besides this website I don't screw around too much.
I just hate not having control over anything on my machine. It's been doing the disk scan every day at noon which slows everything on my computer down, but like I said she's sick so I don't want her near me or my computer.
saint:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 08, 2008, 04:56:30 pm ---Go burn a linux disc and set the administrator password to blank on your machine.
Next time the IT guy logs in, and punches in the admin password, Windows will automatically reset it to what he typed in without notification.
Only way you'll get caught is if he types something in that he -knows- was wrong, or he presses enter before typing anything.
Done this several times so people could install wireless network drivers on their work laptops and screw around on the internet from home. ;)
--- End quote ---
In my organization, if you do that and get caught, you get fired.
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