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>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:44:32 -0800 (PST)
>From: UC Davis Postmaster <postmaster@ucdavis.edu>
>To: Listproc List Owners <nutritionadvising@ucdavis.edu>
>Subject: EVALUATION OF EMAIL ANTI-VIRUS PRODUCTS
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>UC DAVIS: OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST
> INFORMATION & EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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>January 30, 2002
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>TO: ListProc Owners
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>SUBJECT: EVALUATION OF EMAIL ANTI-VIRUS PRODUCTS
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>Information and Educational Technology (IET) will install anti-virus
>software on the campus email ListProc server starting in February, for an
>evaluation period of six weeks. You are receiving this email because you
>are an owner of an email list hosted by the UC Davis ListProc system.
>During this evaluation period and once the anti-virus software is
>selected, users who send emails infected with viruses to your list(s) will
>be asked to resend the email if it cannot be cleaned by the anti-virus
>program. The following information provides reasons for the evaluation
>and the process that will occur when infected emails are sent to your
>list. We ask your assistance to notify your email list users of the
>evaluation program details.
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>Background
>Over the years, the campus has experienced many computer virus
>infections. Responding to these computer virus infections requires many
>labor hours on the part of computer users and technical staff to remove
>the viruses and restore damaged data. Despite the availability of
>anti-virus products for many desktop and server operating systems, the
>spread of virus contamination via email continues to cause problems for
>many UC Davis computer users and those that receive email from campus sources.
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>Information and Educational Technology is currently evaluating several
>anti-virus solutions for campus email systems. As part of this evaluation
>effort, we will be testing several leading products on the campus ListProc
>server. This server has a history of virus infections and provides a good
>indicator for anti-virus product performance.
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>Evaluation Process
>During the anti-virus evaluation, an attempt will be made to remove a
>virus from an infected email and/or email attachment for all email
>messages sent to or received from the ListProc email server. The sender
>of the infected email will be notified of the infection removal. If the
>infection cannot be removed, the infected email message or attachment will
>be deleted. In such instances, the sender will be notified of the
>deletion and advised to transmit a virus-free email message/attachment.
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>Evaluation Schedule
>Beginning on February 4, the first anti-virus package under consideration
>will be protecting the campus ListProc email server. We will rotate up to
>three anti-virus software packages on the ListProc server during the
>evaluation period. Please note that any anti-virus package under
>evaluation will be removed from the ListProc email server should it be
>found to cause performance issues during the test period. The evaluation
>period will run until March 15.
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>Once all evaluations have been completed, Information and Educational
>Technology will initiate acquisition of the necessary anti-virus
>license. If possible, we will seek authorization from the selected vendor
>to continue using the anti-virus product to protect the ListProc email
>server from computer viruses during the negotiation of a license
>contract. Please be aware that this authorization may not be granted by
>the anti-virus vendor and we may temporarily lose the capability to clean
>or remove virus contaminated email from the ListProc server. If this
>occurs, we will notify you and attempt to limit the amount of time the
>ListProc email server is without virus protection.
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>After acquisition of a campus license for an enterprise anti-virus email
>product, we will begin an implementation plan so that virus protection is
>extended to IET campus email servers. The details of the implementation
>plan will be widely communicated and discussed before it is initiated.
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>While the ListProc server, and eventually the campus email servers, will
>attempt to eliminate the proliferation of viruses through email, it is
>still critical that every computer user secure their computers from
>viruses with anti-virus protection. IET recommends and supports Norton
>Anti-Virus, which is included as part of the Bovine Online, and can be
>purchased at the UC Davis Bookstore Computer Shop for $4.99.
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>If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Debbie
>Edwards at email@ucdavis.edu or 757-3408.
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> Sincerely,
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> Robert Ono
> IT Security Coordinator
> Information and
> Educational Technology
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>Copy: Debbie Edwards, Email Postmaster
> Pat Kava, Manager, Technology Coordination
> Morna Mellor, Manager, Campus Data Center
> Professor Richard Plant, Chairperson, Academic Computing
> Coordinating Council
> Dean Robert Smiley, Chairperson, Administrative Computing
> Coordinating Council
> TSP-Info List Members
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Vita Cooper, Undergraduate Staff Advisor
Nutrition Undergraduate Advising Office
1202E Meyer Hall
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
E-mail: nutritionadvising@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-2512 Fax: (530) 752-8966
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