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Updating your Virus Protection

It is critical that all students, staff, faculty, and anyone associate with Gettysburg College update their virus scanner to prevent an infection of a computer virus and its spread. It is important to update your virus defintion files on a daily basis!

Please Note:
Anti-Virus Updates
Our Norton Anti-Virus Server looks for updates 4 times a day. If it finds updates, these are immediately pushed to the client machines. In addition, LiveUpdate is configured on each client to run with the following schedule:

Administrative machines: 11:00am daily
Academic machines: 12:00pm daily
Student machines: 11:00am daily

Anti-Virus Installs
A forced NAV install is performed any time we detect a machine on the network without any type of anti-virus product installed. If a product is detected that is not our college purchased product, the user is contacted by Computing Services and asked to bring their computer into compliance or to allow a member of Computing Services to perform the install for them.

Anti-Virus Scans
Virus scans are performed on a weekly basis. The schedule is as follows:

Administrative machines: Fridays at 12:15pm
Academic machines: Fridays at 12:00pm
Student machines: Fridays at 11:00am

In addition, if a client computer is suspected as being infected, a scan is performed immediately.

All computers on campus should have Norton Antivirus installed. To manually update your virus scanner, follow the steps outlined below:

  • Double Click the gold shield icon located on the bottom right hand corner of your screen in the Windows taskbar.

    (Note: You can also open the Norton Antivirus program by clicking the Start > Programs > Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition > Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition
  • The Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition application will open (similiar to the picture below)
  • Click the Live Update... button to begin updating your virus protection
  • When prompted select Next
  • Your computer will go to Norton's webserver and download appropriate antivirus updates. When all updates have been downloaded, click Finish.
  • Now that you have completed your virus update, you will want to scan your computer for viruses.
 
 
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