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After the Systems Architecture and Administration (SAA) group replaced the old active directory filing appliance with honest to goodness Windows 2008 Servers, http://webfiles.uvm.edu went away. Well, thanks to the SAA group, it’s back and in a supercharged version. Connect, log in using your UVM netID, and you not only can get at your personal active [...]
Tags: Active Directory, SFTP, WebDAV, Zoofiles
Recently we’ve seen a rash of people infected with official looking but entirely fake antivirus malware. In general, the user reports that they were just using a web browser, minding their own business when suddenly a window appears that looked like it came from Microsoft Windows, and which informed them that they were infected with [...]
Are you still running Symantec Antivirus security software on your computer? If yes, it’s time to remove/replace it. ETS has just announced that they are decommissioning the on campus management servers for that software package as of November 30th. Although this shouldn’t affect your use of your computer, you should note that because Symantec hasn’t been updated here on campus for several years now, you are not completely protected from the various flavors of malware that have appeared in the interim.
Continue readingAre you still looking at a red “eyeball” NOD32 icon in your Windows XP or Vista system tray? It has come to my attention that some are still waiting for NOD32 to “fix itself” as I mentioned it would back in November. The NOD32 license has long since been renewed and thus if you’re still [...]
Enterprise Technical Services has announced that the ESET NOD32 Windows antivirus protection software license has been renewed and installed on our management servers. The orange “eyeball” should change back to that reassuring green all by itself. Of course, if it doesn’t, please contact CAS Computing Services for assistance on resolving the problem. More from ETS [...]
Tags: NOD32 ESET
Don’t worry about the license expiration notice currently appearing on all Windows machines with UVM’s NOD32 antivirus package installed. ETS has informed us that they are aware of the notification and are already in the renewal process. ETS also tells us that this alert should disappear on its own with no user intervention required. If [...]
