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I believe that's the product that I saw demonstrated at a trade show. They were offering a cash prize to anyone who could outfox it and install a permanent change to a computer. I observed a bunch of computer folks attempt it, and none succeed. /rich On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:23:07 -0500, Peter Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Deep Freeze might be what you are looking for. It isn't free or open source and I haven't used it myself but I have heard excellent things about it. In short, you get your system setup the way you want it, then "freeze" it so any damage done by spyware/viruses/trainees can be undone with a simple reboot. With the pro and enterprise versions it allows for patches to be installed, etc. I'm not sure how Deep Freeze handles static space, but it's worth checking out. > > http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp?version=education > > - Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Matthew R Farra > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:53 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] Imaging/Managing lab machines? > > I was wondering what the members of the list are using for managing teaching > labs. We have a 15-seat training lab that we use Ghost to periodically > return to a clean state. This system works fine, but requires a fair amount > of time to create the images and deploy them. What do you use? Are there > any open-source/free alternatives? Ideally, I'd like to be able to set > something up that would return the systems to a clean state at a preset > interval, or possibly at login. Deploying Microsoft patches, virus software > updates, etc would also be an issue. > > Another issue would be how to maintain some kind of static file space so > that users attending a multi-day course could save their files and still > have access to them after a system refresh. Would another partition on the > system be the best way to handle this? AFS space? > > Any thoughts on this topic would be very helpful and greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Matt Farra > -- > /-------------------/-------------------/-------------------/--------------- > ----/ > Matthew Farra > Microcomputer Hardware/Software Coordinator > Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services, Michigan State > University > email: [log in to unmask] - phone: 517.432.3720 - fax: 517.353.1821 > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 > >