Yes.... But...
If I was the university administrator, caring as I am, I do not care if some windows newbie student gets infected with some virus that he got on his "mom and dad bought me a laptop and paid all my tuition fees" new computer, and all his MP3s are gone and his system gets trashed. As you say, it is individual responsibility. He should have known to install some antivirus and keep his computer maintained.
I would care however if my servers had got some infected files uploaded to it, which hence spread to other students computers and other important servers that are mission-critical in the day to day running of the university. that is where it would all of a sudden become my responsibility. Therefore I would request a few thousand dollars from the IT budget to go on a blanket licence of (insert antivirus program of choice) then force all students who use my systems to have antivirus installed and up to date. If they don't supply their own, then they can install the one I give them for free. The point i was trying to get at in my earlier post, was a few thousand dollars from the IT budget, to a university is peanuts. and why should I expect the thousands of students in the university to care if I get a virus? My individual responsibility is to keep the servers clean, what kind of administrator would leave that job to the students???
