Over the past
six months, there have been 250 instances of campus users and in some
cases, critical servers managed by departments and colleges, "acquiring"
a Trojan Horse infection (hacker remote control program) on their
University owned systems. The incidents noted above were either identified
by IST centralized detection or user reported problems.
Under normal circumstances,
Norton Antivirus (the University centrally funded and supplied anti-virus
product) detects and intercepts most viruses and Trojan Horse variants
before they can damage the user's system. In the case of many of the
incidents cited above, these users did not:
- have Norton
Antivirus installed,
- did not
enable "real time" protection,
- were running
outdated McAfee software, or
- Norton
Antivirus was deleted from their systems at some point previous
to the infection.
Please ensure
that you have installed Norton Antivirus on your University-owned
systems. You can find complete instructions and downloads at http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwccs/docs/norton/nav.htm.
If you need assistance, please call the helpdesk at 1-4507 or email
help@gsu.edu.