by Brady Begley
"Real-Time Guardian™ (RTGuardian) is the most advanced perimeter security solution for managing web browsing, securing unauthorized IM and P2P usage and blocking the spread of malware in the enterprise." -facetime.com
RTGuardian is your new best friend in the battle against spyware, malware and the other trouble related websites. RTGuardian has gotten rave reviews from leading technology sources. This new service will be coming soon from IT!
"it can enhance your ability to filter unwanted data from your network." -networkcomputing.com
"Offering the zero latency that IT users have come to expect from the Real Time Guardian platform with double the throughput of FaceTime's RTGuardian 1000, the new RTG 2000 addresses the challenges of managing and securing the avalanche of real-time applications being deployed on the enterprise network." -eetimes.com
"Enterprises can manage employee use of all Internet channels—both greynets and the Web—with a single solution using unified policy management." -itwire.com
Typical user will not see any changes to the network but if you are one of the unlucky few who are infected with any spyware you will see a page that tells you "Web Site Restricted". If for some reason you feel you have reached this page while trying to view a legit site please contact us at resnet@eku.edu
As of the date of this summation EKUs IT has no intentions of blocking IM and P2P usage.
"Real-Time Guardian™ (RTGuardian) is the most advanced perimeter security solution for managing web browsing, securing unauthorized IM and P2P usage and blocking the spread of malware in the enterprise." -facetime.com
RTGuardian is your new best friend in the battle against spyware, malware and the other trouble related websites. RTGuardian has gotten rave reviews from leading technology sources. This new service will be coming soon from IT!
"it can enhance your ability to filter unwanted data from your network." -networkcomputing.com
"Offering the zero latency that IT users have come to expect from the Real Time Guardian platform with double the throughput of FaceTime's RTGuardian 1000, the new RTG 2000 addresses the challenges of managing and securing the avalanche of real-time applications being deployed on the enterprise network." -eetimes.com
"Enterprises can manage employee use of all Internet channels—both greynets and the Web—with a single solution using unified policy management." -itwire.com
Typical user will not see any changes to the network but if you are one of the unlucky few who are infected with any spyware you will see a page that tells you "Web Site Restricted". If for some reason you feel you have reached this page while trying to view a legit site please contact us at resnet@eku.edu
As of the date of this summation EKUs IT has no intentions of blocking IM and P2P usage.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 10:16 AM - Phishing & ID Theft, Spyware, Viruses, Symantec, Technology News
By Demetrius Anderson Just right for Halloween is this tale of robots and zombies. Over the past few semesters Eastern has experienced a rise in software robots or BOTNET software. BOTNETt (also known as a zombie army) is a number of Internet computers that, although their owners are unaware of it, have been set up to forward transmissions to other computers on the Internet. These computers are remotely controlled and they are used to send out worms, Trojans, and/ or backdoors throughout the net. According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, through the first six months of 2006, there were 4,696,903 active BOTNET computers.
Of course there are many ways to prevent this from happening to your PC and the safest form of prevention is always internet absence. If you don’t what your PC to become a Zombie we recommend that you avoid going to websites you don’t trust, don’t install software when you’re unsure of what it is, and be cautious of programs like Limewire and many other file sharing programs that install a huge amounts of spyware. If a browser or instant messenger pop up asks you to install software it’s probably not a good idea to install it! We recommend that you download and install Ad-aware and other free anti-spyware programs offered on our support site. Make sure to keep these programs updated and run them weekly!
For more support visit:
http://support.resnet.eku.edu/
http://www.resnet.eku.edu/
by Adam Conner
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing has become a great tool for people to communicate between each other and share music, video, audio images, etc. Programs such as Limewire and Kazaa allow a person to download music and video to a certain location to their computer and share this information with the people who have the same software, but there are risks.
Risk #1: As with anything you download from the internet, there is always the risk of being infected with a virus, spyware, or other malicious programs such as rogue programs, programs that take up space on your computer and are really nothing more than a nuisance. Malware is the other name used for these type of programs. The best defense is to have antivirus software and spyware software, like Spybot, to scan these items to see if they are legitimate or possible infections on your computer.
Risk #2: Be careful not to download copyrighted materials. Overall, file sharing is legal to use but when in doubt, do not download the software, image, song, or video.
Here are some other tips to think about when it comes to using this feature:
*Monitor family peer-to-peer sharing. Do not assume that internet filters can block most P2P files that you receive. Guidelines should be set between family members so that no one downloads a virus or spyware. Be careful who you share these programs with because it may contain either one of these. Also, be careful not to download any copyrighted material.
*Treat all downloaded files with suspicion. Scan each new file with an industry- standard antivirus software before you download it. Set your antivirus to scan your hard-drive on a regular basis or perform these scans yourself.
*Delete any pirated material you find on a family computer, digital audio players, CD-R discs, and other storage devices and consider disabling the P2P’s software downloading option or block outside access to the program by changing your computer’s Internet firewall settings.
*Learn all you can about P2P software and be careful what files you make available to others. Most P2P files are stored in a folder or “My Shared file” or something similar
*Do not store copies of copyrighted files that you have legally purchased, such as a CD from a retail store, into your P2P file-sharing folder.
*Back-up important files on an external device before downloading any shared files
Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourse ... aring.mspx
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing has become a great tool for people to communicate between each other and share music, video, audio images, etc. Programs such as Limewire and Kazaa allow a person to download music and video to a certain location to their computer and share this information with the people who have the same software, but there are risks.
Risk #1: As with anything you download from the internet, there is always the risk of being infected with a virus, spyware, or other malicious programs such as rogue programs, programs that take up space on your computer and are really nothing more than a nuisance. Malware is the other name used for these type of programs. The best defense is to have antivirus software and spyware software, like Spybot, to scan these items to see if they are legitimate or possible infections on your computer.
Risk #2: Be careful not to download copyrighted materials. Overall, file sharing is legal to use but when in doubt, do not download the software, image, song, or video.
Here are some other tips to think about when it comes to using this feature:
*Monitor family peer-to-peer sharing. Do not assume that internet filters can block most P2P files that you receive. Guidelines should be set between family members so that no one downloads a virus or spyware. Be careful who you share these programs with because it may contain either one of these. Also, be careful not to download any copyrighted material.
*Treat all downloaded files with suspicion. Scan each new file with an industry- standard antivirus software before you download it. Set your antivirus to scan your hard-drive on a regular basis or perform these scans yourself.
*Delete any pirated material you find on a family computer, digital audio players, CD-R discs, and other storage devices and consider disabling the P2P’s software downloading option or block outside access to the program by changing your computer’s Internet firewall settings.
*Learn all you can about P2P software and be careful what files you make available to others. Most P2P files are stored in a folder or “My Shared file” or something similar
*Do not store copies of copyrighted files that you have legally purchased, such as a CD from a retail store, into your P2P file-sharing folder.
*Back-up important files on an external device before downloading any shared files
Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourse ... aring.mspx
Instant messaging (IM) programs (MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, etc) have become popular venues for malicious programs to use to spread. It is important, if you use one or more of these, to be aware of them and watch for them.
How do they work? IM viruses are designed to spread themselves via the IM program. Once you are infected, they work without you even knowing it is there...sending messages to everyone on your contact list hoping to infect them too. The messages are from your infected account and once they go to a contact they trust the message and click to download files or go to websites, since it's from you. And, in turn, infecting their machine too. Then the process starts all over!
How do you avoid them? (1) NEVER open, accept or download a file in IM from people unless you know they're definitely sending it to you. If you're not currently chatting with them, send them an e-mail or call them to check. If they're not sending anything to you, they're infected. (2) Always keep software, your operating system and IM programs, up-to-date. (3) Have an antivirus program installed and updated. (4) Keep spyware removal programs up-to-date too and run them weekly to find malware.
How do they work? IM viruses are designed to spread themselves via the IM program. Once you are infected, they work without you even knowing it is there...sending messages to everyone on your contact list hoping to infect them too. The messages are from your infected account and once they go to a contact they trust the message and click to download files or go to websites, since it's from you. And, in turn, infecting their machine too. Then the process starts all over!
How do you avoid them? (1) NEVER open, accept or download a file in IM from people unless you know they're definitely sending it to you. If you're not currently chatting with them, send them an e-mail or call them to check. If they're not sending anything to you, they're infected. (2) Always keep software, your operating system and IM programs, up-to-date. (3) Have an antivirus program installed and updated. (4) Keep spyware removal programs up-to-date too and run them weekly to find malware.
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