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Show t !MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2001 PAGE3 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Lab shutdown was due to anti-virus program ~A tudeot probably got it in an e-mail and didn 't know it was there. Then rhe virus got from the email to a program on the server the student was using. Because the imda virus is o new, the scanning software dido 't pick up on it in time to top it, but it did find it and alert me." Contrary to rumor, the Sepe. 21 server hutdown in the computer labs Haye 'aid the comput rs at UU do have a number ofviruse coming was not caused by a computer irus, but rather by program th erv r in, mo tly through e-mail. was using to d troy the virus. "A student will get an e-mail and not Qui tian Haye , network sy tern administrator for was working late in the lab on th night of pl. 20, when th server's virus-scanning know it i infe ted," Haye aid. "Then program aJerted him that it had detected a imda Virus. they will cho to "I g ta mes age wh n the ·erver detect · a viru ·," Hay aid. "Th first download or run th in ·tance ofthi virus was about 9:10 p.m. I ran a scan from my computer e-mail and the virus and found the virus had gonen into a drive on the erver. I found about 12 file (that) were infected, four of which were cleaned by the scan I ran will g t out and onto the computer. Becau e Crom my office." • of our virus- canning Haye aid h th n cold ch erver to can itself overnight to clean ut ftware, though, th th " t of the virus: vi rus u ually can't copy "The Nimda virus i very (common) right now/ Hayes said. "It doesn 't itself to th server." destroy individual comput rs. It is a worm virus, which means its main He • ald virusgoal i to reproduce itself and pread from computer to computer. " Hayes aid th overnight an took longer than usual because it required scanning technology on th computers i a scan of every fiJ on the sy tern. updated at least one a "l didn't want to miss the viru , " Hayes aid. month , ometimes more. Ha)-1 · aid because it took longer than a normaJ scan, the scan "When omethjng like continued into th next day, using too mu h CPU time and causing th this happens, we update erver to freeze up twice. the virus d finition fil "The a tua1 server butdowns were an indirect result of the virus," · on all of the computers Haye said. "There were ·tudents wbo couldn't g t lQgged on to . lab assistants Jami McKell, and the server," Hayes omputers in th lab because the erver had frozen up. I instructed my said. "That way, the Electronic Learnl~i-~:~::~t~~;i, and Sh:e:~:a!I~ assistants to tell tud nts that the server was down. We usually don't scan.rung technology will broadcast it wh o we have a computer virus on th ser ver." a senior bloh109Ylstryl major from vernal,.,,utawhUe technicians ed recen~ Y recognize more of the n w t hman c em Haye aid th scan was over and the virus taken care of by 1 p .m. that t to the system. res t suu labs were cIos vir es , ruch as the Nimda compu er. day. ters tor a viral threa scanned compu virus." Hayes also aid th virus likely came in through an e-mail account. BY SHELLY BROWN SENIOR STAFF WRITER --------r;~~ ~ ~ocus on Ed this week Senate tackles issues (continued from page 1) Senators to host week of a<;tivities for education majors TAFFWRlTER The College of Education ' "Focus Week " will tart today and run through Frida . ALI education majors are welcome to attend. Fo us Week help - cudent to becoro invol ed with thelr'major and get acquainted with Dean Bruce 0 . Barker, department h ads , pr fe o.r and A enate membe . tudents can also get more information about job opportunities. Coll ge of Education enator Ashley Pitcher aid it is Important for students to attend F cu ' Week not only becau ·e they are in the College of Education but also b cau e th y can become acquainted with their individual departments. "Ctudents) need tO ome out and get to know other students and their profe or " he aid . en. Ashley Marie McKell agreed . " tudent will b able co know what job opportunitie · exi t and thin that ar going on out ide , " -he aid. Fo u Week b gin tonight with 11 "Meet Your Profe sor Dinner'' at 6 :30 p .m. in the , tarlight Room of the Sharwan Smith Center. Deans, departm nt head , profes ors and College of Education students are invited to attend. "Wee timate 150 students and faculty membe will attend"the dinner, n Pitcher aid. "Profe ors w ill be there to talk with -tudent ." Karaoke Night i the second activity planned during Fo us Week. It wiU be Wedne day at 8 p .m . in the tarlight Room . Thi activity i ·ponsored by U Aand clubs from the College of Education. o every tudent i welcome to attend . "Work hop ight" is th third Focu Week activity. It will take place Thur day at 6:30 p .m . in th Great Ba in A and B room of th harwao mitb enter. Pitcher aid thi acti ity will be the mo t beneficial one for tudents . ft wiU focu on dealing with profe ional career , a topic not often covered ia clas . "Iti especially good for students who are P.E. majors b cause it (cont'd. on page 9) and uni er itie . In tead of competing for students, au the chools·can work together. Munford said will create · geoeral education courses to be taught at applied technology centers, but rhe cour e mus t be re lat d to various field of appli d technology. "Th re i a reaJ n ed to do tbi cro ;walk, but it won 't be ea y," Bennion sajd. "If we don t do it, Dixie (State College) will ," Munford aid . "Everyone in tah is in the ·ame boat. It' here let' be partners and work to our ad antage ." READY TO RUN ..-.· Studer:at runners line up for the Hom·e coming 5k fun run on Saturday morning. The fun run, the Homecoming parade and the Homecoming football game were the final events in SUU's 2001-2002 Homecoming Week. |