ITSC Digest, Issue 47 - Virus Alert! Is your Virus Pattern File Up-to-date?

	ITSC Digest, Issue 47 04 Mar, 2004
	1. Review of Policies for Use of ResNet and ClassNet 2. Virus Alert! Is your Virus Pattern File Up-to-date? 3. Q&A: Received Message from xxx@edu.hk With a Password Protected File 4. Firewall Appliance Briefing Sessions for LAN Administrators 5. Starter Programmes for High-performance Computing Users 6. "Parallel Programming and Performance Tuning for Orpin Users" Workshop - Mar 17-19 7. Cost of Laser B/W Printing on Paper 8. Suspension of ITSC PC LAN Services between Mar 6, 2:30 p.m. and Mar 7, 1:00 p.m. Back to this issue

2. Virus Alert! Is your Virus Pattern File Up-to-date?

A few recent outbreaks of computer viruses (Netsky.D, Bagle.D and their variants) have been assigned a high risk alert. In order to fully protect your computer from virus attack, please remember to update the virus pattern of your PC-Cillin. As of Mar 3, the pattern file is 797.

Here are a few points you should note:

Install Virus Scanner on your PC.
Never run programs obtained from unknown sources.
Never open files obtained from unknown sources.
Scan programs or files from the mail/newsgroup/ftp server/web before opening them.

Please visit http://avserver.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk for details.

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