Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system, without the owner’s consent. This includes viruses, worms, scripts, and other “infections” your computer might be suffering from.
First, make sure you have installed antivirus software. SLC provides Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows and for OS X free to install and update for all current SLC students, faculty, and staff. Learn more about viruses.
Stay up to date automatically by enabling automatic updates for XP and OS X (Software Update). This will help keep your machine free of viruses and malware.
Windows XP users make sure your firewall is enabled.
Protect yourself against other forms of malware. We recommend Spybot and Ad-Aware for all Windows operating systems.
Be cautious online. Do not click OK in every window. Many pop-ups look like legitimate warnings. Learn to spot a virus hoax.
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About Sophos Anti-Virus
Sarah Lawrence College has recently deployed the latest version of Sophos Anti-Virus. This program is free to install and update for all current SLC students, faculty, and staff. These instructions apply only to Windows 2000, XP, and Vista operating systems.
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About Sophos Anti-Virus
Sarah Lawrence College has recently deployed the latest version of Sophos Anti-Virus. This program is free to install and update for all current SLC students, faculty, and staff.
These instructions apply only to OS X.
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Before the newest version of Sophos Anti-Virus is installed, Sophos Remote Update must be uninstalled. The functions of this application are taken over by the new version of Sophos Anti-Virus. If a blue sun shaped icon appears in the system tray (next to the clock) then Sophos Remote Update is installed and the following steps must be followed:
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Before you install Sophos Anti-Virus, you must uninstall any other antivirus application on your computer, for example Norton, McAfee, AVG, etc. To uninstall one of these programs in preparation for installing Sophos, follow these directions:
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Viruses are programs that run on your computer without your consent and/or knowledge and which do undesirable things. Some infect or delete files, causing your computer to stop functioning or destroying years of work. Others send copies of themselves to everyone in your email address book. There are thousands of viruses with different behaviors.
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To keep your OS X computer up-to-date and free of malware, run Apple’s Software Update.
- Under the apple menu, select System Preferences
- Click Software Update
- Click Check Now
- Click Install
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Using the Windows XP firewall can help keep hackers, viruses, and worms from gaining access to your computer. The firewall works by simply denying access to your computer from requests coming from outside computers. It will not protect you from Internet traffic that you initiate from your computer.
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