The Office of Computer Services is working with a campus-wide committee to prepare for the advent of the new century. We have a web page that has a lot of information about the Year 2000 problem and has a listing of the major software packages in use on campus and whether they are Year 2000 compliant or not. We are visiting every faculty office, unless otherwise instructed, to test their computer hardware for Year 2000 compliance. We are only checking hardware. You should check all your important software programs, especially if they are DOS programs.
Departments are responsible for checking their laboratory computers.
If requested, we will train one person in the department on how to do the testing. Virus software is different from your normal word processing or programming software. You don't just install it once then forget about it. New virus are constantly being discovered and updates are issued to the software to protect against these new strains. Everyone needs to regularly download the new updates to their version of software.