TyAnn Morehead <TyAnnM1@aol.com> wrote:
: Yesterday when I mentioned to a consultant (who is the former computer
: coord/math teacher from our high school) that we were planning a direct
: Internet connection to be installed this summer, he strongly urged me not to
: access the Internet through our network but use stand-alone modem
: connections. He told me that there was a virus that was coming from the
: Internet and "finding" Windows 95 machines and causing enormous problems. My
: question is: Have any of you heard of/experienced such a virus? Prior to this
: year my experience has been limited to Macs/AppleShare. When this teacher
: retired to become a consultant my job was expanded to include the high school
: Novell network.
: To me not utilizing a network to access the Internet is like having a great
: collection of books in the library but not letting the students or staff
: access them and making them only use the encyclopedias in the classrooms.
: Sure you risk loss/damage, but the benefits far outweigh the risks.
--Judith Russell
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