Answer:
In a previous life, as a SysAdmin we too worried about that and the fear of an Audit for unlicensed software.
Our decision was to disable the "A" drive, which although was rather severe and made us very unpopular, we were able to control what was loaded on the systems and what was not. It increases our workload, as the field auditors and investigators now had to have one of the SysAdmins load software to the servers, but we were never infected either.
As side note we were able to control what software applications were loaded onto all our desktop machines. Productivity was up and game playing was down.
As far as a penalty, I assume progressive discipline, similar to other violations of policy.
First published on BankersOnline.com 6/4/01
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