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...anti-virus program malfunction affected companies, hospitals, and schools around the world, but had little impact on the Harvard community...
...Anti-virus program McAfee caused computers world-wide to malfunction on Wednesday due to a bug within the software, but the virus outbreak had minimal effects on Harvard computers...
...McAfee malfunction did not affect any computers in Harvard facilities because FAS IT had been coordinating a test run of a new anti-virus software program at the time. According to Selsby, the program will be released soon, as FAS IT is in the final stages of negotiation with the software’s vendor...
...solid anti-virus program is only a part of the complete plan that we take to minimize risk to our faculty, staff and students,” Selsby said. “We also make a great effort...to educate [students] on how to set up their computers’ security settings in order to minimize attacks on their machines...
...notice that their computers are slower, but don’t do anything about it. Eventually, the problem snowballs and they bring their computer in to us,” she said. Nettifee said that Computer Services recommends several steps Harvard students should take to protect themselves, including installing anti-virus software, password protecting all accounts, and keeping software up-to-date on their computers. Eighty-seven percent of Harvard undergraduates reported using anti-virus software, according to the FAS Computer Survey from 2003, the last year for which numbers are available. Nettifee said she did not have any specific...