On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 22:00 -0800, Funny NYPD wrote:
> Bob, 
> Can you verify that your office PCs has some kind of remote control/hard drive lock, or anti-virus staff installed (in the mean time, they keep recording everything you did on the computer)? 
>  
> One of my experience shows the IT department tuned the windows xp to keep people from accessing local hard drive or installing anything locally. And this drove engineers nuts. 
>  
> Once that hard drive lock (which is really just a software lock) was removed, everything works perfectly.  All computers are Dell machines and laptops.
>  
> I only saw this happened on those big companies. They (IT guys) do have the capability and can created many XP "Virus" (which is invisible to you and me) to control people's daily life.

Which is another reason I like running Linux here at work, IT doesn't
even know the machine exists! :) TTYL
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