RE: PC security software
Rogers, Mary (RogersM@sacredheart.edu)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:23:57 -0400
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:23:57 -0400
Message-Id: <c=US%a=_%p=Sacred_Heart_Uni%l=PLUTO-970718122830Z-1775@mail.sacredheart.edu>
From: "Rogers, Mary" <RogersM@sacredheart.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: RE: PC security software
Mark
Do you happen to know what the site license runs?
Mary Rogers
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>From: Gentry,Mark[SMTP:MGENTRY@stfranciscare.org]
>Sent: Thursday, July 17, 1997 6:09 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: RE: PC security software
>
>We have been using Fortress on some of our PCs for the past 6 months or
>so. It is working very well on a couple of Windows95 machines which are
>used mainly for Internet access. We had a lot of problems with people
>adding programs and deleting files on this before we installed the
>Fortres software. Not a single problem since we put on Fortres.
>
>We also tested Fortres on an older computer running Windows for
>Workgroups but it seemed to be crashing our applications. I believe
>that is because this computer - used for database searching on our
>Novell network - was straining already and the addition of Fortress was
>the straw that broke the camels back.
>
>Although Fortres has a ton of options, it is pretty easy to administer.
>You do have to test all your software to see where users must have
>privileges - for example, we had to enable read, write and delete to the
>cache directory for Netscape. I talked our systems people into buying a
>site license for our entire institution.
>
>Mark
>Mark Gentry . . . . . . . . . . mgentry@stfranciscare.org
>Health Sciences Library
>Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center
>114 Woodland St.
>Hartford, CT 06105-1299
> Phone: (860) 714-4909 Fax: (860) 714-8022
>
>
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>>From: Joyce M. Reid[SMTP:jreid@connix.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 17, 1997 4:41 PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list
>>
>>We have started replacing our dumb terminals with PC's. Now we need a
>>good security software for the Windows 95 environment. Please tell me
>>about Winlock 95 and Fortress. Who is sing one of these? What are the
>>best features? Any other suggestions. Thank you.
>>
>>Joyce
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