Security Alert: UCSB bans Windows

Security Alert: UCSB bans Windows NT/2K : “The University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) recently banned student computers running Windows NT or Windows 2000 from the campus network, to which students connect in the school’s dormitories. According to this notice, the operating systems were banned because “we have to consider the overall health of our network when dealing with vulnerable operating systems, virus protection, and network security threats.” ”