Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation.
Suncorp has signed a three-year security and archiving contract with Symantec to protect 20,000 "locked down" Windows XP desktops and servers.
Apple Mac users have a good reason to feel more secure than their PC-using cousins: compared to malicious software created for Windows systems, malware writers have left OS X in relative peace.
A suspected localised DNS (domain name server) has been preventing Telstra ADSL users in parts of Queensland accessing Symantec's antivirus Web site since late last week.
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