Originally Posted by
lilwing 
does your college require you to have specific 'anti-virus' software on your computer to connect to their internet?
Nope
does your college allow you to use wireless routers/hubs/any kind of routers whatsoever?
Don't know, but they offer wifi for most of the compass.
i am looking at my college computer stuff, and it says they require you to have this stupid ass anti-virus software to connect to the internet, and they don't allow any routers.
i am very angry right now about that. i am curious how they 'enforce' students to have antivirus software on their computer. i am repelling to install it because i think that it's laced with some kind of university spying program that records everything you do. i don't want that. also, i have a router for security reasons.
Uh lilwing, instead of getting piss, you should ask your college's IT department why they have such rules for their network.
what are some ways around this nonsense?
Lets see, you can always not obey the rules, but if they find out you can run into trouble. Or you can hack your way thru it, but most college networks on well known colleges, tend to have good security measures in place.
lilwing I have no idea why your pissed off about this. If you know anything about computer security, you would know colleges, tend to run on older equipment and do not upgrade it alot and so a lot of times newer tech can mess up their network or cause problems for the end user, being you the student using the network. They also want to keep virus and what have you off the network, and the best way to do that is require anti-virus programs. Ya you can say you avoid getting such things, but someone with less computer knowledge may not.