Protect yourself from “Computer Viruses”!
 A Virus is a manmade program or piece of code that causes an unexpected, usually negative, event. Viruses are often disguised games or images with clever marketing titles. A virus might corrupt or delete data on your computer, use your email program to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on your hard disk.
Computer Worms are viruses that reside in the active memory of a computer and duplicate themselves. They may send copies of themselves to other computers, such as through email or Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
A Trojan horse program is a malicious program that pretends to be a benign application; a Trojan horse program purposefully does something the user does not expect. Trojans are not viruses since they do not replicate, but Trojan horse programs can be just as destructive. Many people use the term to refer only to non-replicating malicious programs, thus making a distinction between Trojans and viruses.
Definitions From Mcafee.com
What should I do to defend against “Viruses”?
- Install and update your antivirus software, such as McAfee or Symantec.
- Use care when reading e-mail with attachments.
- Don’t open e-mails from unknown senders.
- Install and update your firewall. Windows provides built-in firewalls.
- Make backups of important files and folders.
- Use strong passwords.
- Secure your passwords.
- Use care when downloading and installing programs.
What is the University doing about Viruses?
The University of St. Thomas anti-virus/spam appliance provides increased protection from viruses by scanning every email, inbound and outbound, that is handled by the email server.
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