Assumption College participates in an anti-virus site license agreement with Network Associates Inc. This agreement provides for the installation and distribution of virus protection software to all desktop and laptop computers used by Assumption College faculty, staff, administration, and students, including their personal computers at home. The initial agreement, which was negotiated during the S pring of 2000, covers the use and distribution of a package marketed as McAfee VirusScan for computers running Windows and Virex for computers running Macintosh.

All college owned computers are required to have one of the above-mentioned products installed and configured to update the virus definitions from Assumption College's FTP server. All computers running Windows that log on to the NT network are automatically checked for McAfee VirusScan and the latest virus definitions via logon script. Computers not logging on to the NT network must have the software installed and configured manually.

General Virus Info and Safety measures

Last update by Dr. Robert Fry June 2002