Software requirements vary widely by department. The Virginia Tech campus has standardized on the Microsoft Office suite, however, and it is available at a great discount from the University Bookstore . Software required for basic networking at Virginia Tech including Eudora email, Netscape's web browser, Norton AntiVirus protection package and Adobe Acrobat Viewer is given away by the Computing Center for free. The easiest way is to use the new Webmail page. Then just login with you PID and password.
Instructions are available on the homepage.
From the NetBasics page, choose the Virginia Tech Student Homepage link. I forgot my password. The Computing Center requires a picture ID to change an email password. Students at the Northern Virginia campus will soon be able to go to the library there to have passwords changed. Students at other campuses will have similar services sometime this fall.