[Liverpool] Software freedom (problems at the University)

[Andrew Williams]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:27:26PM +0000, Vladimir wrote:
> The clauses you highlight in the Sophos licensing agreement relate to the
> Universities agreement with Sophos and not yours personally.

*facepalm* but its a EULA, if they don't even understand a simple term as 
that then they can't be taken seriously.

> Whether you decide to install a supported anti-virus application is up to
> you but if you don’t our Network Access Control will continue to deny you
> access to the network.

This sounds like a challenge, how is the detection done? I get the feeling 
its doing it via checking if port 25 is "open", in the sense of a closed 
port will reject on a normal PC, where as a firewall will silent drop. 

They state that they have supported anti-virus of Norton, McCafee and such, 
all of them come with some rudimentry anti-malware firewall software.

I'm more than happy to spend some time checking through some wireshark logs 
if you want to. Connect to the AP and see what traffic you get spammed with. 
Might be just a case of silent dropping one IP har har.

-- 
Andrew Williams
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e: andy (at) tensixtyone.com
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