ISG News has posted a new item, 'Increased Number of Viruses'
As some of you may have noticed there are a lot of viruses these days that
arrive by e-mail and that slip through the virus filters. The current pattern
involves ZIP attachments that contain executable code (EXE) inside it. The mail
pretends to come from DHL, UPS, FedEx, or Xerox. We expect other fake senders
like airline or hotel reservation systems to follow. We also expect to see
infected PDF or MS office attachments.
The current viruses appear long before their signatures make it into the lists
of the major anti-virus (AV) software. By the time the signature appears in the
official lists the virus wave is usually already over. Be aware that no AV
software can protect you reliably form viruses. All the AV software can do is
keep the old known viruses at bay.
We are currently working hard to find such viruses and we keep our internal list
of unofficial signatures. Once we recognize a new virus we clean them out of the
user inboxes and move them to the SpamBox. However, we cannot garantee that we
find all viruses.
Please be vigilant and do not trust attachments. ZIP and EXE are almost always
bad. PDF are often OK but sometimes bad. Mail senders can be faked so make sure
that you really expect an attachment from the sender.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/09/21/increased-number-of-viruses/
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Elmar Heeb
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Hardware upgrade in the student computer room
HPV F 7.1'
We updated the hardware of 5 computers in the student computer room HPV F 7.1.
With 4 GB of RAM and 3.0 Ghz processor from AMD they now have much more
performance than the older ones. For identification, we have marked them with a
blue label. These computers are available for public use within the usage policy
while they're not being used for exercises.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2011/09/05/hardware-upgrade-in-the-student-co…
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isg
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