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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hello,

thanks for this field report.

> We have just deployed eduroam to our school and roughly only have around 50 
> users enrolled so far. I have had a few end users claim that the Eduroam 
> CAT installer broke their ability to connect to their home wifi network. 
> Our staff has not seen this issue personally during our testing. Anything 
> you may be aware of that the installer does that may conflict with home 
> wireless networks? I know my home wireless network is WPA2-Personal and I 
> have no issues connecting to it after leaving the school.

I've never heard of something like that.

In any case, issues like this one would probably be highly
operating-system dependent, so I'd appreciate a bit more detail which
platform those users were using.

Also, depending on your CAT SSID settings and their home networks, this
could be just a unlucky coincidence: if your CAT settings include
"Remove/Disable SSID" for an onboarding SSID *and* those users happen to
have the same SSID at home, then yes, that SSID would get disabled and
they might experience a connecitvity issue at home.

> Also, so far I had one user claim the eduroam installer for Windows 7 
> showed up on quarantine with Avast antivirus. They went with our manual 
> setup options to bypass the installer.

It very occasionally happens that our Windows installers get
false-positive rating by some antivirus vendors, despite code signing
certificates and requesting white-listing. That's because the installers
necessarily change system settings and registry values; there's no way
around that.

If the user is seriously concerned that there is a problem, he or she
should upload the file to virustotal.com and see if other AV engines
besides Avast confirm a problem.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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