The oldenborg switches will be replaced this afternoon at around 5:30. As a result network connectivity will be unavaliable for about 20 or 30 minutes while we change the switch out. If you are still unable to get online at around 6:15 please reboot your machine before calling the helpdesk.
[Update 20:10]: The switch was […]
W32.Netsky.C is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to the email addresses it finds when scanning hard drives and mapped drives. This worm also searches drives C through Z for the folder names containing “Shar,” and then copies itself to those folders, which means that it can spread by […]
Several e-mail services, including the Exchange server and POP server, are currently unavailable. The full-time staff have been notified and are investigating.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
[UPDATE: 10:40 PM by Matt Goldstein]: Services were restored at approximately the same time the above message was posted. Sorry for any confusion.
The student supervisors have noticed in the past few hours that no emails from non-Pomona addresses seem to be arriving. We have attempted to send test emails to ourselves and each other to confirm this suspicion. We have paged the Email Administrator and are currently in the process of attempting to contact the Systems Administrator.
It […]
Yet another new virus, given the names W32.Netsky.B@mm or Moodown.B by anti-virus companies, was discovered this morning, and is spreading quickly. Symantec currently lists it as a level 4 threat on a scale from 1-5 (5 being most severe). At this point, all the major anti-virus vendors have updated their virus scanners to detect this […]
A new virus was discovered this morning that is spreading fast. Symantec currently lists it as a level 3 threat on a scale from 1-5 (5 being most severe). Currently it appears that Sophos and Symantec/Norton have released updates that will detect the virus. At this time it appears that McAfee has not been updated. […]
ITS needs to perform some maintenance on the network servers. We will be doing this on Monday, 16 February.
Network services for Faculty, Academic Staff and Students will be affected between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m.; no one service will be down for more than 10 minutes.
For Administrative Staff only email service will be affected and […]
This evening, several malfunctioning switches in Oldenborg were replaced. Those people connected to the old switches briefly lost network and internet connectivity while the changeover occurred. This should end the recent sporadic outages for parts of Oldenborg. If you or someone you know is unable to connect to the network, please call the helpdesk at […]
Microsoft has announced 3 new security vulnerabilites. One of these security flaws allows anyone to do anything they want to your computer over the network. The result is that it is likely that we will see a virus/worm that takes advantage of this flaw to spread to unprotected systems. In order to protect your copmuter […]
Since the current method of handling spam is actually more cumbersome and is also causing some technical problems, ITS will stop encapsulating messages that are suspected of being spam. For the near term we will return simply to tagging spam messages as we had done before using [SPAM].
We are investigating a couple of other […]
