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Internet Access E-Mail and Dial Up Virus Protection
New computer viruses are being created daily. A virus checking utility on the RINET e-mail server helps to eliminate the vulnerability of all RINET recipients of electronic mail to the nasty experience of virus infection. This utility intercepts all email messages (sent to addresses of the form xxxx@ride.ri.net and xxxx@mail.ri.net) with attached documents and performs a check for virus infection. If the attachment is infected, the email message is returned to sender. If the attachment is not infected, the message is sent on to the addressee.
Note: This utility checks only the RINET mail server, not other mail servers or web servers you may use. Other sources that are not checked by this utility are documents that you may download from web sites, files that you may copy from a removable media source such as a floppy disk, etc.Critical Steps To Protect Your Personal* Computer From Viruses and Worms:
- Unless you are expecting e-mail with an attachment from a specific person, do not open email attachments
- Update your Windows software regularly at the Microsoft Windows Update Web Site (Microsoft frequently patches security holes that allow viruses and worms access to your computer)
- Purchase and regularly update a virus protection package such as:
* You should check with your school or district technology coordinator before taking any steps to change the configuration on your school computer.
Virus Alerts
The best source for virus alerts are found at the leading virus protection/Internet security vendor sites of Symantec/Norton and McAfee Security. The home page for each of these sites always contains the latest alerts and threats.
Virus Hoaxes
E-mail warning messages that encourage you to forward the information to all your email contacts are typically hoaxes. Please disregard hoax emails that contain bogus warnings; they generally only frighten or mislead recipients and clog up e-mail boxes and networks. The best course of action is to merely delete these e-mails.
To verify that the warning in question is a hoax, click on one of the following sites which contain valuable up-to-date virus hoax information:
Please do not forward the warning message to 'all your friends', as it may suggest in the text. If you have verified that the message is a hoax, simply delete it.
