October 2004

QCT

Quick Computing Topics (QCT) is an electronic Newsletter published by Administrative Computing and Media Services/User Support for CSUB Faculty, Staff, and Students. Past issues will be archived on the IRTS homepage (http://www.csub.edu/InfoRes/CTS/QCT). Please address any comments or suggestions to: Administrative Computing secretary at extension 2115.

Campus Users,

This morning, the campus received two new viruses via email. Due to the rapid propagation on the Internet, we received the virus before McAfee (our virus protection developer) was able to send out an update for their software to detect these new viruses. As of 9am this morning we have received the new update and have been sending the updates to all computers on campus running EPO. An earlier email from Sue Rivera contained this same update. If you haven't run this update manually, you no longer need to. EPO will automatically update your computer.

Your computer is not infected unless you double-clicked on the infected attachment. Simply delete any messages that appear to be suspicious. Messages (even from your colleagues) that have a subject line of Hi, Hello, Thanks; an attachment name of Price.exe, Price.scr, Price.com, Joke.com, Joke.exe, Joke.scr and a smilie in the body of the message is suspicious.

Those computers that are already infected (user has already double-clicked on the infected attachment) should contact the helpdesk immediately if we haven't already contacted you. These viruses disable your virus scanner and the helpdesk will need to reenable and update the anti-virus product and manually scan your computer to remove the virus.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the helpdesk at ext 2307.

IRTS