 Technology
Did you know?
Over 40% of the email received at McIntire is spam or virus |
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Spam and Virus
What can I do to reduce my spam?
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Unwanted or Commercial bulk email, known as SPAM, is a serious
threat to productivity at all levels of business, including higher
education. To reduce the effects of spam on the McIntire
community, we offer several services.
- The McIntire school uses a heuristic engine to detect and tag
spam. You may notice messages in your inbox tagged with "SPAM:" at the
beginning of the subject line. A rule can be created in Outlook
to move these messages
to a junk email folder.
- The McIntire School uses DNS blacklists to block spam from
known sources. The blacklists block the most active
spammers on the Internet.
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Anti-Virus Efforts
Protection at the McIntire School
- The most common form of virus transmission is email, so all incoming email at the McIntire
School is scanned three
times by the time you read it.
- Desktop machines are managed centrally to control virus
definition updates as well as Windows product updates.
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Symantec anti-virus software is installed on every
McIntire-issued machine.
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Symantec anti-virus scans every email message opened
with Microsoft Outlook.
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You may manually update your virus definitions by
following these
instructions.
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What You Can Do to Help
- Never open attachments from unknown parties.
- Never follow links in email from untrusted sources. When in doubt, go to the home page of the company and navigate
to your account.
- If you receive an e-mail telling you to delete
files from your machine, it is most likely a hoax. Contact the postmaster.
- If you think your machine is infected with a virus, notify
the Help Desk immediately.
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For information about computer viruses affecting the University community, click here.
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