VIRUS Information
What's brewing? What's not?
We all get them! Those pesky viruses! Just keeping your virus software up to date may not be enough. We all need to stay in touch with what viruses could be coming our way and if they are a "real" threat or just a hoax.
We, in Technology Support, hope this page will be invaluable to you. It will contain important information on virus threats and hoaxes as well as links to sites where you can get up to the minute information and directions on how to get rid of them. See below for "What's brewing? What's not?" Click on a link and LEARN!
Please note - Call x3900 before removing any files from your computer - removing the wrong file may damage your operating system and as a result crash your computer!
- What's brewing? "ALERTS"
- What's not? "HOAXES"
- Teddy bear hoax
- Phishing? Check this out!
- Virus Fix Information
- Virus information library and the most recent "Alerts" and their status
It is extremely important that you keep your personal computer up to date with the latest operating system and anti-virus patches. If you have McAfee already installed on your computer visit this site to see if it is up to date https://mysupport.nai.com/amiuptodate/Intro.asp.
Follow the link labeled "Am I up to date". It will download an active X
program that will check your machine and see if you are up to date with
your DATS and engine.
Before registering your computer on the Wheaton College network, please follow the links below to protect your computer (and our network) against the 2 latest threats on the Internet, the MSBlaster RPC vulnerability in Windows and the Sobig.f mass-mailing worm virus. Please click here for more information