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Resnet requires virus protection
New regulations are asking that students install approved anti-virus software and regulate traffic.
Brian Fanelli
Issue date: 1/25/05 Section: News
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In order to ensure that resident students living on campus can connect to the university?s computer network this semester and to stabilize the network, the university is requiring that all resident students have appropriate anti-virus software and patches installed on their computers so network problems do not occur.
To connect to the university?s network, students not using Macs must have Windows 2000 or Windows XP on their computers, according to the Student Resource CD handed out to residents living on campus. Windows XP users must also have the Service Pack 2 software and the Service Pack 2 update software.
Students using Windows 2000 must have Serve Pack 4 installed on their computers and the Service Pack 4 update. The software is available to download on the CD given to all resident students by the University.
If resident students do not have anti-virus software and the appropriate patches on their computer, it creates network problems and excessive traffic.
Excessive traffic slows down the network and it can also prevent students from logging on the network. "This excessive traffic is created by viruses and causes a person?s computer to send out a large amount of unnecessary communications... which greatly slows down a networked environment by using up the available bandwidth," said Peter Galloway, Director of Housing Services.
To combat excessive traffic and computer viruses, resident students are required to have either Sophos virus protection on their computer, which can be downloaded for free on the CD distributed to campus residents this semester, or updated versions of McAfee Anti-Virus software or Symantec Norton Anti-Virus software.
The Internet and network problems that occurred at the beginning of last semester for resident students were a result of excessive traffic. "Students brought viruses with them to campus, but since they were not in a networked environment before, they didn?t realize it because it wasn?t impacting anyone else," said Galloway. "However, once connected to the network and without the proper patches and virus protection in place, the viruses created the traffic that clogged the network."
To connect to the university?s network, students not using Macs must have Windows 2000 or Windows XP on their computers, according to the Student Resource CD handed out to residents living on campus. Windows XP users must also have the Service Pack 2 software and the Service Pack 2 update software.
Students using Windows 2000 must have Serve Pack 4 installed on their computers and the Service Pack 4 update. The software is available to download on the CD given to all resident students by the University.
If resident students do not have anti-virus software and the appropriate patches on their computer, it creates network problems and excessive traffic.
Excessive traffic slows down the network and it can also prevent students from logging on the network. "This excessive traffic is created by viruses and causes a person?s computer to send out a large amount of unnecessary communications... which greatly slows down a networked environment by using up the available bandwidth," said Peter Galloway, Director of Housing Services.
To combat excessive traffic and computer viruses, resident students are required to have either Sophos virus protection on their computer, which can be downloaded for free on the CD distributed to campus residents this semester, or updated versions of McAfee Anti-Virus software or Symantec Norton Anti-Virus software.
The Internet and network problems that occurred at the beginning of last semester for resident students were a result of excessive traffic. "Students brought viruses with them to campus, but since they were not in a networked environment before, they didn?t realize it because it wasn?t impacting anyone else," said Galloway. "However, once connected to the network and without the proper patches and virus protection in place, the viruses created the traffic that clogged the network."
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