Much progress has been made in dealing with the viruses that have recently affected our computers and network. A scan last night and this morning showed a significant decrease in infections.

However, some faculty and staff users are still apparently opening the greeting card e-mail attachments. As long as users on the network continue to open these attachments (or, depending on how your email is configured, possibly just the message itself), the virus can continue to spread and restrictions will have to be put back on which affect everyone. Please remember not to open these and spread the word to anyone who might not have paid attention to the problem.

All PC restrictions (including those affecting printing and GroupWise access) were lifted this morning. A few users with infected computers are still being worked on. But if your computer was not infected and you still have problems, please reboot your computer. That will clear the remaining restrictions that might be affecting it. If you still have issues after that, please call the Help Desk with specific information about your problem.

We are still blocking greeting card e-mail messages from outside and certain other network functions that are related to this. However, infected computers within the network can still send the messages to other network users so they look like they are coming from the outside.

Many other institutions are dealing with this virus. A short list includes Illinois State, University of Wisconsin, Indiana Wesleyan, and Cornell University. But the restrictions we put in place have greatly helped keep these infections from spreading as much as they would have otherwise.

Thanks for your patience.

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