Who has to run Trend Micro antivirus software?
by H. Townsend, interim IT security officer published Nov. 14, 2006 During K-State’s transition from Symantec to Trend Micro for antivirus protection for Windows computers, one of the most common questions concerned which computers had to run Trend Micro software. The “Virus Protection” subsection of K-State’s newly revised IT security policy (see Requirements for Information, Computing and Network Security in PPM 3430) defines new, stronger requirements for malware protection and describes who has to run K-State’s antivirus software. The general rule is that any computer owned by the university or owned by a K-State faculty, staff, or student (i.e., your personal home computer) must run the “university-supplied antivirus software configured in a managed mode” if it is directly connected to the campus network. Several concepts warrant further explanation. A. What is “university-supplied antivirus software”? For Windows and Linux computers, that means Trend Micro software. For Macintosh
