10 Tips for Cyber Security
The link above leads to the top ten tips on how to improve your own cyber security, as well as more information about cyber security.
Do-it-Yourself Tools
Computers are excellent tools for learning, productivity, and entertainment, but without proper maintenance their usefulness declines rapidly. Problems develop when viruses make their way into a system, through a security hole or other exploit. The link above leads to common questions about problems that can occur during the course of normal computing, and the steps you can follow to alleviate such problems.
Virus Information
In an effort to minimize the problems caused by viruses, ITS provides all campus PCs and Macs with anti-virus software and has taken steps to pre-scan messages received by our mail server. Faculty, staff and students should, likewise, ensure that they have up-to-date anti-virus software on their personal computers. (Sources for virus information)
Virus Hoaxes: If you receive an e-mail warning of a virus, you may want to check the virus hoax lists at the following sources to see if the warning is legitimate.
Symantec's Hoax Page: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
Hoax Busters: http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
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