I am a computer professional whose job includes cleaning adware and spyware off users' computers. I work at a community college where we are using Windows XP SP2 and McAfee Antivirus and Antispyware. We manage our workstations with Novell Zenworks. Even with all this, last week I still had to clean porn off a user's PC, probably because the user was searching the web for "inflatables". The PC this teacher was using should have been replaced with something more current years ago, and should have been remotely managed so patches and updates could be installed on it. This lack is the fault of the school and the school system, not the user. I would think the attorneys involved in this would be aware that porn sites are very aggressive and sneaky!!! It is hard to fathom in this day and age that anyone can believe that the history of an unpatched old version of IE running on an obsolete operating system constitutes "evidence" on a PC accessible to anyone who wants to use it. She didn't even boot the PC herself--so how can she be responsible for what is on it? And what was a computer like this doing in a classroom anyway?

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