3-30-2009

The National Cyber Alert System has issued a warning about a worm that is targeting Microsoft Windows systems. The Conficker worm can infect a Microsoft Windows system from a thumb drive, a network share, or directly across a network if the host is not patched with MS08-067.

To prevent infection by this worm we encourage you to run Microsoft update http://update.microsoft.com. or http://support.microsoft.com.

3-3-2009

The Office of Information Technology has become aware of a scam e-mail message being sent to members of our campus community. It purports to be from the Internal Revenue Service and requests the user fill in information via an attachment. The body of the message simply requests the user fill in the information in the attachments and fax it to a number.

The body of the message is simply: Please see the attachment make sure you fill all the columns and send fax to: 1-646-308-1145.

If you have further questions, please contact the IT Helpdesk at 662-915-5222.

9-15-2008

The Office of Information Technology has become aware of a scam e-mail message being sent to members of our campus community. It purports to be from the school Webmaster and requests that you fill in your username and password for database updating purposes. THIS IS A SCAM. We are not making any database updates, as it suggests, and we will never ask for anyone to put his or her password in an e-mail message. (Doing so would violate our Appropriate Use Policy.) This e-mail is simply one of many examples of "phishing" and if you should receive it, your best response would be to delete it.

While the University e-mail system has filters in place to prevent most virus and spam messages from getting through, some will inevitably reach our users' inboxes. If you should receive any questionable e-mail, please forward it to abuse@olemiss.edu so that we may deal with it as necessary.

If you have further questions, please contact the IT Helpdesk at 662-915-5222.

Thank you for exercising judgment and responsibility when using your Ole Miss e-mail and WebID accounts.