There is currently an intermittent problem with Internet access. The problem is out somewhere on the Internet outside of the Claremont consortium. CINE, the entity that manages the consortial Internet connection, is working with our Internet service providers to try and identify the problem. At present, since the source of the problem […]
A new alert has just been issued regarding another new virus called ?MydoomB.? The vendor of the antivirus software we are using here at Pomona (Sophos) has informed us that they have issued updates to the software we use to protect machines from this new virus. Updates to campus machines will be handled […]
At 12:12 this morning, CINE, the 5-college network, temporarily lost its connection to the outside world, and internet service was briefly interrupted. After a little less than 6 minutes, service was restored. As this appears to be a problem with the Claremont Colleges’ internet provider, Los Nettos, and not with any of Pomona’s own resources, […]
In our battle against the latest virus ITS must take another step to try to minimize the impact of the recent virus outbreak. The MyDoom virus has its own SMTP engine which it uses to send out email to try to infect other machines.
As of 9:00 am, Thursday, 29 January, ITS will […]
This message pertains to students, faculty and academic staff only.
ITS must take the server known as Wells down in order to replace a failed drive. The services supported by this service include: faculty/academic staff home directories storage, faculty/academic staff personal websites and storage for classes and departments.
During the downtime these services will be unavailable.
The […]
The virus definition update for the MyDoom virus was issued at approximately 9:50pm this evening.
The update was installed on the Pomona Faculty/Staff and Student email systems at about 10pm this evening. Immediately, various forms of the MyDoom virus were scanned and quarantined by the Pomona email system showing that the scanning was working properly.
There […]
Mydoom is a worm that spreads over email AND the Kazaa network. When executed, the worm opens up Windows’ Notepad with garbage data in it. In emails, it uses variable subjects, bodies and attachment names. It also attacks SCO.COM with a denial of service attack.
Subjects can be any of the following:
test
hi
[…]
As the result of a new virus out there, if you receive any suspicious email messages, even from someone you know, with an attachment that has been zipped, do not open the attachment. It seems that these most of these messages have a subject of ?HI?, but it could vary. The zip file […]
We’re pleased to announce that Pomona has obtained a site license for Microsoft Office 2003 for Windows. In addition to creating new installations, the installer can upgrade an existing version of Office on your computer. The installer is available by checkout from the helpdesk, or by download if you are connected to the network. Here’s […]
We are working on a network design initiative with the overall goal of creating a network that is more available, reliable, and secure. We have already made some major improvements to the network by retiring the legacy ATM network and implementing Gigabit Ethernet. This summer we hope to complete the physical network upgrade by migrating […]
