Present:

• Chair: Martin MacLeod, Engineering Computing
• Erick Engelke, Engineering Computing
• Hector Budman, Associate Dean For Computing, Faculty of Engineering
• Hon Tam, Engineering Computing
• James Morrison, Systems Design
• Richard Scott, Civil Engineering
• Bruce Campbell, Engineering Computing
• Bernie Roehl, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Dennis Herman, Chemical Engineering

Regrets:

• Paul Martin, Management Science
• Steve Hitchman, Mechanical Engineering
• Ray White, IST
• Pete Routledge, Mechanical Engineering
• Mike Herz, Civil Engineering

Discussion:

Virus Scanning on Waterloo Polaris

A virus has arrived which sneaks past the Waterloo Polaris disk protection.  Discussion focused on how to treat workstations and infected users.

Bruce tried to have Norton Antivirus (NAV) scan all home directories overnight but it crashed (95) or got nowhere (W2K over a weekend).

NAV was doing continuous virus scanning until a few months ago, but then it became too slow and there were no known virus threats (thanks to W.Polaris write protection), so continuous scanning was turned off.

Now Ray is investigating enabling continuous virus scanning (NAV), especially if it can be tuned to only scan on file writes as this would not hamper performance as much as if virus scanning were enabled on reads too.
 

Active Directory

Campus AD committee has been meeting and until recently discussing only a single domain for the campus.  EC asked the AD committee to investigate multi-domain models, such as a Polaris domain or individual faculty domains.