Link to Assistive Technology (AT) Tools: Voice Control a device
McAfee SiteAdvisor Makes Safe Surfing Easier
McAfee SiteAdvisor is now bundled with Swarthmore McAfee Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware Version 8.5 for Windows PCs. You’ll know that SiteAdvisor is running on your PC if you notice an icon like the following on your Internet Explorer (shown) and/or Firefox browser: SiteAdvisor visually indicates whether a web site you’re visiting has been determined to be safe or otherwise. The SiteAdvisor icon will be one of the following colors: green – the site has been judged by McAfee to be safe yellow – the site has user feedback indicating it may not be safe red – the site contains malicious software, downloads or … Continue reading McAfee SiteAdvisor Makes Safe Surfing Easier
Firefox Shortcut: Get to Gmail in a Flash
From Firefox’s location/address bar, hit “g” and then Enter. That’ll take you straight to Gmail. More Firefox shortcuts. Continue reading Firefox Shortcut: Get to Gmail in a Flash
Summer employment opportunities
Information Technology Services is accepting applications for summertime employment. Apply Online Please be sure to check the position you are interested in AS WELL AS the “I am interested only in summer positions” boxes. Summer Technical Support Associate Classification: Category III pay rate Hours: 8:30-4:30 weekdays; starting late May until Aug. 1 Duties: Upgrade faculty/staff computers according to described procedure. This includes backing up files on the old computer, configuring new computer, installing the backed up files on the new computer, installing software and removal of old computer hardware. Candidate should be: very comfortable with the Mac OS and Windows … Continue reading Summer employment opportunities
Happy Valentine’s Day?! Join a Botnet!!
Malware writers are hoping that you’ll open that Valentine’s Day card they sent you. Unfortunately, in addition to a greeting, the seemingly innocent “card” will be downloading malicious software to your PC. Once downloaded, your PC will become a bot, or drone, and will then join a “botnet“. The good news is that these trojan Valentine’s Day cards require you to click on a URL link within the email. That link will then show you festive images (below) while it downloads malicious software such as ‘valentine.exe’. The downloads are constantly changing (morphing) so as to avoid detection by anti-virus software. … Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day?! Join a Botnet!!
Patches, patches, and more patches!!
Whether you’re a Windows or Mac user, major software vendors have released multiple patches in the past several days to close existing security holes within your system. There are also important security fixes available for popular applications like Adobe Acrobat, Mozilla Firefox and QuickTime. Beginning with Apple, there is a security patch for Mac OS X 10.4 (Security Update 2008-001). This single patch fixes five security vulnerabilities. Additionally, an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.2 has become available. This upgrade fixes eight security holes and also updates functionality over 10.4. Apple’s software update feature should detect the availability of these … Continue reading Patches, patches, and more patches!!
Mail Server Upgrade
The mail server upgrade has been completed and ITS is working on two remaining issues: Some people are having problems sending email from off campus when using an email client such as; Eudora, Outlook or Thunderbird. If you are having a problem with outgoing messages please use Swatmail, our web interface for sending and receiving email. Also, a few people have reported password problems, ITS is working with a vendor to restore our self-service password changing tool. Continue reading Mail Server Upgrade