Two problems seem to prevail with students and personal computers. The first is backups. Many students buy one diskette at the start of the school year. They use it throughout the fall and winter term for all courses. Please stress to your students that backups of their work should be made onto other diskettes.
Viruses are also a large problem at the university.
Inform your students that viruses do exist and can cause damage to data. If students hand in assignments on diskettes, encourage them to run a virus scan before submitting their work. Be sure to run a virus scan on your hard disk often. Viruses and PC Users Information about viruses, how to protect yourself from them, how to remove one, what viruses have been confirmed at Queen's, can all be found at the Virus Information Index . Details on how to install Dr. Solomon, Queen's virus protection software of choice, can be found at this web page .