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...immune to H5N1. Every country is at risk. Every country must prepare." DR. LEE JONG-WOOK, World Health Organization director general, in a statement to the media following reports that tens of thousands of poultry had died of avian flu in northern Nigeria, marking the first time the virus has been found in Africa...
...been unavailable at other times,” Levine wrote in an e-mail. “Ever increasing usage loads on the FAS e-mail systems...have severely challenged these systems.” In addition to excessive traffic, the network was also plagued by attacks from a virus called Denial of Service, which Levine said impedes e-mail system performance. The dual stressors combined to form a perfect storm that washed out e-mail access for many students and faculty. Harvard’s IT staff is “working literally around the clock?...
...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 numbers...
...course the best cure, in computing as in health, is prevention-stopping the stuff from ever being installed on your system. The National Cyber Security Alliance recommends that all computer users have a secure firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. And yet an alliance study, conducted last December in conjunction with AOL, found that 81% of home PCs were missing at least one of these three security components. Four in 10 lacked spyware protection...
...Friday night was supposed to be captain Matt Stehle’s night.With a single basket, Stehle would become just the 22nd player in Harvard history to crack the 1,000 point barrier, deservedly etching his name in the Crimson basketball record books.But the combination of a nasty flu virus and foul trouble threatened to turn an evening of celebration into one that could wreck Harvard’s Ivy title hopes.Stehle missed the shoot-around and pre-game film study. He was a game-time decision to start, but four minutes in, his playing time would be limited...