Holiday Lab Hours December 13, 2006
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All labs are closed from Wednesday, December 20th, through Sunday, January 7th. Regular lab hours will resume on Monday, January 8th. See you in the New Year! |
For detailed lab hours, please visit http://www.umflint.edu/labs/.
MS Word Document Issue December 13, 2006
Posted by admin in : IT Security Tips, Virus Alert , add a commentWe are still receiving quite a few inquiries about this issue so I would like to take a moment to try and clarify.
This affects any version of MS Word from XP to 2003, including both Macintosh versions.
Only documents that were received on or after December 5th have a chance of being infected (this was when an exploit was discovered on the Internet), so you can safely access documents from before then.
You can most likely trust new documents that you receive provided (1) they are from someone you know, and (2) you were expecting to receive a document from them.
Microsoft has not released an update yet to correct the issue, and our anti-virus vendor, McAfee, has not released a file that will let our anti-virus software scan for and clean infected files. Currently, we do not know when a fix will be released.
If you receive a document but are not sure if it may be a virus, you do NOT need to delete it. Hopefully, once McAfee releases a way to scan for these files you will be able to clean the infected file and then safely open it, however until that time you should NOT open the file!
If you have any questions, please contact the ITS HelpDesk at 66804.
We will keep everyone informed as we receive updates from either Microsoft or McAfee.
