Agreed, we installed XPe thin clients in a production network recently and have viruses within 5 minutes! It is actually required nowadays--unfortunately !! Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85262 (602) 432-8649 (602) 296-0411 fax steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig kenzig.com Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:57 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Does anyone run virus scanner on XPe thin client? Not necessarily, there are Network viruses out there...all XPe clients I know of need to store the IE cache someplace even if it does get wiped out on reboot the chance that a person could hit a page with a virus on that got stored and could hop onto your network does indeed exist. JAK John Hardwick <t> wrote: Im running 6 XPe Wyse units and havent worried about viruses on them. You could always lock down the image take away MS network client and just leave TCP/IP and then use that as a base image. The other thing to keep in mind is that as the units reboot (at least the Wyse work this way) they dont keep any of the changes.. so the machine would have to be re-infected again upon boot for it to be a problem. - John Hardwick _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:14 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Does anyone run virus scanner on XPe thin client? Does anyone think it is necessary to run a virus scanner on a XPe thin client? Does anyone who has XPe run a virus scanner? Thanks for the info! Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Network Administrator