"Storm" Surge Likely Spam Culprit
Storm, the Trojan horse that collects PCs into hacker-controlled botnets has become the most prolific e-mail-borne malware ever. According to a computerworld.com article, Storm is designed to propagate more copies of itself, as well as release huge quantities of spam.
Date: Aug 23, 2007
Be Wary of Fake E-cards Carrying Viruses
Think you got a nice greeting card from a friend va e-mail? Well, think twice before opening it. The newest computer virus threats are turning up in fake plain-text e-cards that look real, but carry nasty viruses.
Date: Aug 23, 2007
Internet2 News
The new Internet2 Network (www.internet2.edu/network), now with 100 Gbps capacity, provides a tenfold increase in bandwidth over Internet2’s first generation "Abilene" network. The Internet2 Network is designed to provide point-to-point dynamic and static circuit services and advanced IP services that will support innovation in network-intensive scientific frontiers including: High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Earthquake Engineering Simulation, Environmental Observatories, and eVLBI.
Date: Aug 20, 2007
Computer Pods and Classrooms Continue to use Microsoft Windows XP
The Computer Pods and Information Commons across campus will continue to use the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system. This includes the University Downtown Center and all Multimedia classrooms with installed Windows computers.
Date: Aug 15, 2007
LISTSERV Web Interface Changes
Information Technology Services advises LISTSERV owners who use the web interface to manage a LISTSERV (listserv.binghamton.edu) that the software has changed significantly due to upgrades to our LISTSERV software earlier this summer.
Date: Aug 10, 2007
Microsoft Windows in Pods and Multimedia Classrooms
Even though ITS now supports Microsoft Windows Vista on personal and office computers, we do not intend to convert all public labs and classroom computers to this operating system. ITS will continue to use Windows XP Professional in Pod Classrooms, multimedia classrooms, Information Commons and other public labs for all of fall semester, 2007.
Date: Jul 30, 2007
Windows Vista Update from ITS
Information Technology Services will provide support for the Windows Vista operating system beginning Wednesday, Aug. 1. ITS will support the Vista Business edition on faculty/staff machines.
Date: Jul 30, 2007
Contact ITS Technical Staff for Assistance
Information Technology Services, incorporating Computing, the Educational Communications Center and Telecommunications, reminds faculty and staff that they do not need a formal service request to consult with technical staff within ITS.
Date: Mar 29, 2007
SAS for Student Machines
While the ability to write and run SAS programs on a high speed Unix server may be desirable for some students, others may opt to run smaller SAS programs in a more user-friendly (Windows-only) development environment.
Date: Feb 13, 2007
Sharing and Moving Files with Word 2007
The new Microsoft Word 2007 brings with it the introduction a new file format (*.docm). Currently, this format is not automatically supported or recognized by older versions of Microsoft Word or other word processing programs. There are several options for users sharing files between Word 2007 and older versions of Word.
Date: Feb 08, 2007
