Protect Against Viruses
by
Help Desk
The beginning of Fall semester seems like a good time to remind you to protect
your computer and your data by installing anti-virus software. McAfee for
Windows and Virex for Macintosh are available through the NDUS site-license
program at no charge to the University community.
Our campus does see a lot of virus activity. For example, the U-mail server
has anti-virus software installed. On April 27, U-mail scanned 44,612 messages
and removed 956 infected files. The Internet worm W32/Sobig.B was hitting
our campus at that time. The impact of the worm on U-mail users was minimized
due to the anti-virus software on the e-mail server, but that is only the
first line of defense.
New viruses are identified each day therefore it is important that each
of us takes the necessary steps to install and keep our anti-virus software
up-to-date. There are many ways to obtain an infected file, including e-mail
on servers that may not scan for viruses, downloading files directly
from the web, or from someone else via diskette.
To download McAfee VirusScan please go to http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/itss/virus.
Instructions to configure or change the AutoUpdate and AutoUpgrade schedules
are located at http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/itss/virus/mcafee-auto-update.htm.
