Account disabled for using Firefox

[giza]

If there's ever a reason why I can't stand clueless MCSE's who think that pointing and clicking around Windows makes them some sort of computer genius, this would be it. The short story is that a student installed Firefox on a lab machine at his university, and got his account suspended for it. The reason? The "network admin" told him that "the computers had to be reformatted". Riiight. Could you please show your work? No, I didn't think so.

Remember kids: MCSE == Must Consult Someone Else

Comments

[giza.livejournal.com]

I disagree. In the very last sentence of that post, it reads: "Just opening Internet Explorer results in about 3 minutes of closing popups."

To me, that indicates that the school's computers have a spyware problem, and that whoever is in charge of them is unwilling or unable to fix it. If that's indeed the case, I really can't fault the guy for working around the situation by installing Firefox. I probably would have done the same if I was in that situation.

[bigtig.livejournal.com]

That or the kid wants to surf pr0n without having popups giving him away.