Virus Alerts
Virus Programs:
- Inoculate IT
Personal Edition:
- Description: InoculateIT Personal Edition (IPE) is an antivirus
program for your desktop. Computer Associates is offering this as a
service for PC users in order to significantly limit the damage caused
by viruses to PCs. InoculateIT PE automatically detects and cleans
conventional file and boot sector viruses as well as macro viruses that
infect Office 95, Office 98, and Office 2000 Word documents, Excel
spreadsheets, and Access databases. It provides protection against
Internet and email-borne viruses, protecting your PC from infected files
downloaded from Web sites around the world and from infected attachments
sent to you via email.
- McAfee VirusScan :
- Description: Viruses can be accidentally received through disks,
bulletin boards, email, local networks, and the Internet. VirusScan
offers virus detection, removal, and support services to remedy this
problem. The program scans all system areas, including local and network
drives, CD-ROMs, floppies, boot sectors, file allocation and partition
tables, files, and compressed files. It cleans most virus infections
from files, master boot sectors, partition tables, and memory, returning
them to a virus-free state.
- Norton AntiVirus :
- Description: Norton AntiVirus version 5.0 has new features that let
you quarantine infected files and get help directly from Symantec
researchers. Also, it automatically protects you against viruses and
malicious ActiveX and Java applets. As always, Norton AntiVirus can run
constantly in the background to keep your computer safe from viruses
that might come in from email attachments, Internet downloads, floppy
diskettes, software CDs, or a network. And it can be scheduled to
automatically retrieve new AntiVirus definitions from Symantec as often
as once a week.
Virus Definition Updates: REMEMBER
to update at least weekly!!!!!
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