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last modified Nov 19, 2001 at 12:47
From Melissa Thomas, WebCT administrator extraordinaire:
To all:
I have received several calls from students in Dr. Memo Diriker's BUAD 338 or BUAD 699 E-Commerce course. The are recieving Runtime Errors when they try to access their Assignment.
The problem seems to be that they are instructed to go to ebiz.salisbury.edu first. Then click on Introduction and then the link for WebCT. What happens is that the ebiz opens WebCT within it's own frame. This is the cause of the error.
Instead, please recommend to students to go directly to webct.salisbury.edu and not through ebiz.salisbury.edu.
We uploaded the instruction sheets for Faculty/Staff dialup for OS X and Windows XP today, as well as the Windows XP instruction sheets for Resnet. Follow the links to the left to get yours now, before it's too late!
Some issues to welcome you back with: first, the glitch that allowed you to enter anything into the GroupWise password slot when you don't have a password has been fixed. So, if you've never accessed your e-mail through GroupWise WebAccess, and your password for GroupWise suddenly doesn't work, chances are you actually don't have a GroupWise password. Try keeping the password field blank and see if that lets you in. If that doesn't work, come down to the Help Desk (FH149) and fill out a GroupWise change of password form.
Next is an announcement! The faculty/staff dialup instructions for Mac OS X is available. Currently it's in Word format, an Acrobat format is on the way.
For XP users, we're working on getting instructions up here for you, but in the meantime, follow this:
First, either way, go to the control panel and choose Network and Internet Connections. Faculty Staff dialup can skip the next paragraph.
For Resnet, choose Set up or change your Internet connection. Next to "To set up an Internet connection, click Setup" you want to, well, click Setup. Cancel out of the Location Information, you won't need it. Click Yes to the Confirm Cancel to let Windows know that you know what you're doing. Click Next. Choose Connect to the Internet and click Next. Choose Set up my connection manually and click Next. Your only choice should be Connect using a broadband connection that is always on, so click Next. Then click Finish.
For Faculty/Staff dialup, you'll need the phone numbers from the other dialup sheets... just open it up and write them down (click on the OSX instruction link above). Then, in the Network and Internet Connections control panel click Create a connection to the network at your workplace. (You won't actually log onto the network, as you can't, but this is just what Windows XP calls it). Fill out the questions in the Location Information window, if it shows up. Leave the phone system as Tone dialing. Click OK. In Phone and Modem Options, click OK. Choose Dial-up connection in the New Connection Wizard. Click Next. Enter in Salisbury University as Company Name. Click Next. Enter in one of the two phone numbers given to you for dial-up. Click Next. You may want to check to have Windows create a shortcut on your desktop, then click Finish.
Then, either double-click on the shortcut or go to Start>Connect To>Dialup Connection. Enter your Novell user name and password (the same ones you use to log in at work), choose to save the user name and password if you wish, then click Dial. That's it.
Hope everyone has a great semester!
from the offices of Web Development and Information Technology:
On Thursday morning for several hours the main web server will be down for maintenance. During this time, the main www.salisbury.edu and facultyfp.salisbury.edu sites will be visible via a backup server.
Several other sites hosted on this server will be unavailable during the morning. Additionally Frontpage accounts that log into an http:// address will be locked out until the afternoon.
faculty.salisbury.edu accounts are hosted via Novell and so they are unaffected by this.
We are sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience. This maintenance will help provide more stable Frontpage logins as well as better security.
Sites that will be temporarily unavailable include:
www.seagullcentury.org
www.access26.org
ebiz.salisbury.edu
varsityclub.salisbury.edu
trc.salisbury.edu
www.easterncommunication.org
nabbhistory.salisbury.edu
www.wscl.org
helpdesk.salisbury.edu
www.lowershoreccrc.org
www.shoretransit.org
pmg.salisbury.edu
The Gigger Virus is a particularly nasty virus that will try to help you out by deleting all the files on your hard drive. It'll arrive in your mailbox with the Subject: Outlook Express Update, and will have the message MSNSofware Co. (notice the mispelling, that's a dead giveaway.)
The file also has an attachment, Mmsn_offline.htm.
When you click on the attachment (like you should never ever do... best way to avoid viruses? DON'T OPEN ATTACHMENTS. Ever.) it infects all of your html files. Then, it adds the line ECHO y|format c: to your autoexec.bat file, which will format your hard drive if you reboot. Then it tries to spread itself through mIRC, if you use that to chat. It messes with the registry, adds itself to the network, and then, lastly, it tries to delete all the files on your hard drive.
If you get this file, just delete it. If you run it, you'll need to run a virus software program to remove it. And, if it executes and deletes your files, they're gone. If you think you have this virus, and are an SU student, faculty or staff, contact the help desk immediately.
Admittedly, there's not that much going on around here during the winter semester. Sure, there's a new virus out that may infect Flash files (see SARC for details) that's so rare that none of us will even see it, and there's that fancy new iMac everyone's yammering on and on about, but other than that, not really much.
So here's some fun stuff to keep you busy.
First, forget all of those multitude of chat programs you've got running on your machine. Pare it down to just one with the new Trillian.
Now that you can talk to all of your buddies, send them a hoax e-mail. Tech TV tells you all the tips to be an efficient hoax e-mail creator, from pleas to save a sick or missing child to needles in phone booths to Microsoft giving out free money and Coca Cola giving out free coke. Then be sure to send them to the Urban Legends Resource Page to get more legends and hoaxes.
Finally, have a little free time? Then hop on over to the MSN Gaming Zone, where you'll find tons of free games to keep you busy until the boss yells at you. Bejeweled is a favorite around here.
Users of Windows 95 and NT 4 may want to go to Microsoft's Assistance Center (http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/9798/addeurosym.aspx) and download the product update for euro support. Not surprisingly, operating systems that were released prior to the conception of the euro don't have the appropriate symbols incorporated into their default fonts.
Once again we're getting tidings about deleting the awful sulfnbk.exe virus that's on everyone's computer. DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE. Sulfnbk.exe is Windows Long File Name Restore Utility, and the e-mail is a hoax. In case you forgot that if it's really a threat, we'll send a warning out about it, and forgot to check the Symantec Anti-Virus Resource Center to make sure before following the instructions on the e-mail, here's how to restore it.
And please remember, folks, don't believe everything you read, unless it comes directly from the help desk!
The top virus threat for the first of the winter session is the Maldal.D virus, followed by Zoher, Shoho, Maldal.C, JS Coolsite and DIDer. All of these except the DIDer virus are distributed through Outlook, through attachments, so you really only have to worry about them on your home computer. However, DIDer is distributed when you download Grokster or Limewire (a case against file sharing?) during the Clicktilluwin installation, regardless of if you choose to install the spyware program or not.
Descriptions of all of these viruses and how to remove them are listed in the Symantec AntiVirus Resource Center.
Hope everyone had a great holiday! We're going to kick off 2002 with a user supplied link: Raynald's SPSS Tools. This is a great SPSS site, and for those of you using SPSS, it may hold answers for you that even we don't know off the top of our heads.
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