Office Of The Chief Information Officer
The University Libraries and ITS Helpdesk will observe the following schedule during the Thanksgiving Recess:
Thursday & Friday, November 27th & 28th – CLOSED
Saturday & Sunday, November 29th & 30th – REGULAR HOURS OBSERVED (Sat. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. & Sun. 1 -8 p.m.)
For further information or assistance, call the Helpdesk at x1466 or email helpdesk@uvi.edu.
Best wishes,
Judith V. Rogers
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Virus Warning
Office of the CIO
Good Day UVI.
Please be aware that a virus has penetrated some hardware at UVI. As a result, some ‘uvi.edu’ websites may not be available while we scan for the threat on various servers. Campus users are being asked to scan their workstations using the F-Secure anti-virus software. Following are steps to accomplish this:
Right –click on the F-Secure blue triangle icon on the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.
Go to the Virus / Spyware Protection and select ‘Perform full computer check’.
If a virus is found at the end of the scan, then perform the recommended F-Secure action.
As always, refrain from opening attachments from unknown persons or from clicking on links from within emails. These are common methods through which viruses are spread.
Please contact the helpdesk (x1466) if you require assistance.
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The following are the types of viruses that may be of concern:
NAME:
Runouce
ALIAS:
W32/Thecid.B@mm, W32/Chir@MM, W32.Chier@mm, I-Worm.Runouce,I-Worm.Win32.ChiHack
VARIANT:
Runouce.B
Runouce is an internet worm. When run it copies itself to the System Directory as Runouce.exe and modifies windows registry so it is run each time windows starts.
Searches for HTML files in the users' hard drive and modifies them to launch the file README.EML, created in the same directory where the HTML is found.
Sends e-mail with the following format:
Subject:
From:
The worm spreads itself as an attachment named pp.exe with MIME type audio/x-wav.
Name :
Exploit
Alias:
Iframe, EXPLOIT.VBS, Incorrect MIME header exploit, I-Frame
Type:
Exploit
Category:
Malware
Platform:
W32
An exploit is a short amount of code that uses a vulnerability in software or an operating system to perform certain malicious actions.
Thank you,
Judith V. Rogers
Good Day UVI.
Please be aware that a virus has penetrated some hardware at UVI. As a result, some ‘uvi.edu’ websites may not be available while we scan for the threat on various servers. Campus users are being asked to scan their workstations using the F-Secure anti-virus software. Following are steps to accomplish this:
Right –click on the F-Secure blue triangle icon on the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.
Go to the Virus / Spyware Protection and select ‘Perform full computer check’.
If a virus is found at the end of the scan, then perform the recommended F-Secure action.
As always, refrain from opening attachments from unknown persons or from clicking on links from within emails. These are common methods through which viruses are spread.
Please contact the helpdesk (x1466) if you require assistance.
---
The following are the types of viruses that may be of concern:
NAME:
Runouce
ALIAS:
W32/Thecid.B@mm, W32/Chir@MM, W32.Chier@mm, I-Worm.Runouce,I-Worm.Win32.ChiHack
VARIANT:
Runouce.B
Runouce is an internet worm. When run it copies itself to the System Directory as Runouce.exe and modifies windows registry so it is run each time windows starts.
Searches for HTML files in the users' hard drive and modifies them to launch the file README.EML, created in the same directory where the HTML is found.
Sends e-mail with the following format:
Subject:
From:
The worm spreads itself as an attachment named pp.exe with MIME type audio/x-wav.
Name :
Exploit
Alias:
Iframe, EXPLOIT.VBS, Incorrect MIME header exploit, I-Frame
Type:
Exploit
Category:
Malware
Platform:
W32
An exploit is a short amount of code that uses a vulnerability in software or an operating system to perform certain malicious actions.
Thank you,
Judith V. Rogers
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