Podcasting Activity held at ITS Technology Center April 27, 2007
Posted by admin in : General News, New Technologies , add a commentITS sponsored a podcasting activity for Take Your Child To Work Day, Thursday, April 26, 2007. The event was held from 10am to 5pm in the ITS Technology Center, which was recently moved from WSW to 207 MSB. Approximately 16 students who were visiting campus with their parent enjoyed learning about podcasting and viewing kid-friendly podcasts at PBS.org and Disney.com. Several students forged bravely into the world of podcasting and recorded their thoughts about the events of the day and other topics.
To listen to the podcasts, please visit http://ww2.umflint.edu/RadioITS/ and click the link for the “Take Your Child to Work Day - Podcasting Activity.” You will need Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox to view the RSS feed. For more information about podcasting and “RSS”, please consult http://ww2.umflint.edu/its/projects/podcasting.htm and http://ww2.umflint.edu/its/helpdesk/flyers/RSS.pdf
MCard Distribution for Spring 2007 April 23, 2007
Posted by admin in : Expert Advice from the ITS HelpDesk, General News, Lab News, Mcard , add a commentAt the beginning of every semester, ITS distributes Mcards in the UPAV (next to Subway). The dates for the Spring 2007 semester are:
- May 2-3 –> 8:00 am -7:00 pm
- May 4 –> 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
- May 7-8 –> 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
If you are unable to get to the UPAV during one of these sessions, the MCard stations are located in 206 MSB and 3174 WSW open computer labs throughout the semester for your convenience.
Lab Closing Information April 23, 2007
Posted by admin in : General News, Lab News , add a commentAll ITS Computer Labs will be closed from Thursday, May 3rd through Sunday, May 6th for the semester changeover. All labs (except 223 FH, see below) will reopen on Monday May 7th for the start of the Spring semester.
Due to the renovations in French Hall, the 223 FH computer lab will close on April 30th and remain closed during the Spring semester.
Apple Products Coming Soon to M-Marketsite April 17, 2007
Posted by admin in : General News, Hardware and Software Sales , add a commentM-Marketsite, the site used by faculty and staff for hardware purchases on campus, will soon be offering Apple hardware and software. Apple merchandise will be available to the University of Michigan-Flint community starting May 1st. Previously, Apple products were not available through M-Marketsite.
To coordinate purchasing and service/support please continue to contact J. Long/B. Roth in Purchasing, and Ken Heiser in ITS.
Worm Attack Masquerades As IE7 Download Offer April 2, 2007
Posted by admin in : Expert Advice from the ITS HelpDesk, IT Security Tips, Safe Computing, Virus Alert , add a commentE-mails display an image that invites users to download a beta of a new version of Internet Explorer 7, but instead they are hit with the Grum-A worm.
By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek
March 30, 2007 04:40 PM
A security company issued a warning Friday about a widespread attack that’s masquerading as an offer from Microsoft to download a version of Internet Explorer 7. The e-mails, which claim to come from admin@microsoft.com and have the subject line “Internet Explorer 7 Downloads,” display an image that invites users to download beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7, according to an advisory from Sophos, a security company. Users who make the mistake of clicking on the link in the message, though, instead are infected by the W32/Grum-A worm. “Worms like this are only succeeding in spreading because so many people have still not learned to be suspicious of unsolicited e-mails, even if they claim to come from well-known companies like Microsoft,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, in a written statement. “The problem is that to the casual observer the e-mail looks genuine, and the image displayed looks near-identical to the imagery that Microsoft is using on its Web site to promote Internet Explorer 7.0. Clicking on the image, however, doesn’t download the real beta, but malicious code straight from the hackers.” The Grum worm is an appender virus that infects executable files referenced by Run keys in the Windows Registry. When activated, it copies itself to \winlogon.exe and makes changes to the Registry. It also edits the HOSTS file, injecting a thread into system.dll and attempts to patch two system files. Cluley noted in the advisory that it’s an old trick for hackers to mask their attacks as communications from Microsoft. In 2003, the Gibe-F worm, which also was known as Swen, was disguised as a critical Microsoft security update, and in 2005, hackers directed duped users to a bogus and malicious Web site masquerading as a Microsoft update page.
