Re: Need for regular IPL's

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>(5) Each PC powered off is one less left signed-on and open to the public.
<snip>

>5) You can (and should) kill inactive interactive jobs.  It's not necessary
>to rely on the PC users to do this.

It's not just the interactive job that poses the security threat.  Any PC
with an active router poses an exposure.  Trouble is, it's much more
difficult to decide when a communications job should be terminated because
of inactivity.  

jte


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