Custom UCB Symantec Anti-virus? - the meaning of 'custom'?

Why doesn't the Berkeley software distribution website specifically
state that the "Symantec Anti-virus 10.1.7 UCB Custom" application
connects to megalon.security.berkeley.edu for information gathering and
reporting? I am assuming that the capabilities of the "Symantec Client
Security 3.1.6 MR6 UCB Custom" application pack has even more
information gathering features.

These products basically have administrative access to the operating
system since they can even scan protected memory areas. Theoretically
then, access to the entire machine is possible.

If this is to collect information, e.g. anti-virus logs, firewall
security logs, IPS logs, from endpoint users, shouldn't students,
faculty, and staff users be made aware of this on the software
distribution website? Why wasn't this information disclosed?

I understand the benefits of such management, but without notifying the
endpoint user that the 'custom' versions has the ability to gather
information directly from your computer and is gathered and reported to
the campus SNS manager seems a bit like big brother to me.

Doesn't the endpoint user have a right to know what the software does?

-- 
Bruce Satow
Space Physics Research Group
Space Sciences Laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720-7450
(510) 643-2348
 
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