A number of our staff continues to receive a number of notifications of recently discovered security loopholes in messaging clients and new virus variants from fellow UM and JMH staff and faculty. Thanks to all. Have an Anti-virus program on your computer with constantly updated virus signature and data files. Network Services has a licensed anti-virus program available for all Medical Campus users. Never open a file attachment to an electronic mail, floppy disk or other medium unless you're certain of where it originated from and are confident it is virus-clean.
Examples are mass joke mailings, solicitations and chain mailings.
Look at the subject line of the message, if it seems odd or out of place, follow your instincts, you're probably right. Call our Help Desk at x5999 for assistance. Know that viruses can spread throughout an office or department if floppy disks are co-utilized or files are shared over a network. Run a complete virus scan on all hard disk drives of computers at a minimum of once per month. It is important that you log into a domain controller that will enable login scripts to be utilized.