To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Mike Corn" <mcorn@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: mcorn@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - CITES unveils e-mail antivirus controls

On Wednesday, March 2nd, CITES will provide a new tool to help UIUC e-mail
users combat computer viruses. Incoming campus e-mail will be scanned for
viruses. Whenever the new antivirus control detects a virus in an e-mail,
the e-mail will be automatically deleted before it reaches the user's mailbox.

This service will be automatically provided to anyone using
'netid@uiuc.edu' as his or her e-mail address. The antivirus software works
transparently and requires no action to be taken by the user.

Viruses are a problem for any network and the network at UIUC is no
exception. Over a one week testing period in February the new antivirus
controls identified 121,052 e-mails as e-mails that contained a virus.

While the antivirus controls will help stem the spread of viruses by
e-mail, it is important for users to not rely solely on this service. 
Viruses can still be spread by other means over a network. It is therefore
important for users to retain and continually update the antivirus software
on their own computers. Antivirus software for personal computers is
provided at no cost to members of the UIUC community on the campus webstore
at http://webstore.cites.uiuc.edu.

The e-mail antivirus control is a component of CITES Spam Control service.
Beginning in April, the UIUC community will be invited to activate the
anti-spam controls for their campus e-mail. This activation will take place
in several stages and will help reduce the amount of spam entering campus
e-mail accounts. CITES will provide more information on the anti-spam
activation as it becomes available.

For further information on CITES Spam Control, see the project status web
site at
http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/projects/spamcontrol/

MC

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Mike Corn
Director, Security Services and Information Privacy
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(217) 265-0588
mcorn@uiuc.eduThis mailing approved by:
The Office of the Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

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