Facebook, Myspace, Youtube vs. School Security.

To start this out, I was at my boyfriends house today while he was doing a raid in WoW. He was lagging SO badly that I went upstairs to his sister and asked if she could turn her torrents down, because I just showed her how to use BitTorent and now she has an anthology of rap music and videos to rival most of the girls her age. Anyways, I asked her to turn them down, showed her how and then realized her laptop was suffering some major laggage too, and kept crashing randomly while I was attempting to cap her download speed (We QoS'd her after he was done playing). So, I ran NoD32 to see what the problem was:

A trojan from everyones favorite site, Facebook.

How? She searched for something using Facebooks search function, *apparently*, and after that everything started to go down hill because of it. I think she may have clicked on a bad link and DL'd something, but she won't admit/can't remember.

The problem is taken care of now, obviously, but it made me much more cautious to how I advise people to browse websites. I don't use linux anymore, and so I too need to watch my link-clickage. I have a fucking amazing anti-virus, NOD32, but not everyone may have that, and moveover, not all schools have it. Moving on to my next point..

I'm currently attending a Charter school that is in its very first year. Here are the implications:

*No wireless in the school at all except from the church its sharing space with, which isn't secure.

*Said wireless was used by every teacher for the first 2 months, untill the Church complained and then realized that all the information was being viewed by *some* 3rd party.

*Their using the old version of Internet Explorer, which has tons of security flaws. (All the school information is stored on some server, and their using IE to access it.)

*There is NO antivirus running on ANY computer.

*There is no fliter to what content students can see. I went to some pretty flagged sites, like Meat Spin and nope.. Not blocked. (I left it up on the computer screen just to let everyone know it was there, after I had left.)

*Facebook, Myspace, Youtube and other sites of MAJOR procrastination are not blocked.

I've told my director thousands of times that I can fix the problem in less than a day, I could get every computer running linux, a wireless network set up AND amazing anti-virus software done in a 24 hour period on the weekend.
She won't listen, apparently we have some "guy" from the "CIA" doing our networking, except.. Hes not doing anything at all. I've seen him once and he did nothing.

I'm going to try and talk to her again for various reasons, mainly this could be a major break for me if I could do it because of the trial and error factor, plus the experience AND the reference because I'd technically be "working" for them, just not for pay.