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December 5, 2006
keeping your computer up-to-date
Each week I get a few calls, usually on Tuesday when our server that manages residential internet connections checks users for updated antivirus definitions. If students have old definitions they are put in a quarantine area until there definitions are updated. Here is the catch; once they are quarantined they no longer have internet access to update their antivirus. So what are students to do?
First you should set up a schedule update them, like Monday at 5pm, while you’re at dinner, or whenever you like. Make sure your computer is running and check the setting for you anti-virus. There may be a section to set up an automatic update. Otherwise start the update manually. Make sure this is done each week, preferably on Monday, since the server checks on Tuesday; you know you will be as up-to-date as you can be.
And if you are already quarantined you can bring your computer to the Landers Computer Lab and update your definitions. Or you can download the virus definition from a friends computer and then install them on your computer using a USB flash drive or burn it to CD and us it.
Posted by rushingj at December 5, 2006 2:19 PM