BIOTA

If you have some old photo slides that you'd like to digitize, we've cobbled together a Windows 98 PC with an old Polaroid SprintScan 35 Plus attached.  SprintScan software is installed.

The unit is in RW336.  If you need any help with it, contact:   it-help [at] biota [dot] utoronto [dot] ca

Just having an Anti-Virus program isn't enough.

Some tips:

1)  Occasionally check that your "virus defintions" are up to date.  All anti-virus progams do updates and date stamp them.  Open up your A-V program and check.

2) Take care regarding attachments.  Especially avoid opening attached files with extensions like .EXE, .SCR, .VBS and .PIF

E-WASTE: COMPUTERS, ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, CELL PHONES, SOFTWARE ETC.

Functional items can be reused through the Swap Shop. Broken items can be picked up for recycling.

All software (i.e. floppy disks, CD's) is also collected.

If you have a UTORid or library card or Tcard barcode and PIN number there shouldn't be a problem.

For extra info go to: discover.library.utoronto.ca/services/my-access

Due to the infinity of scenarios depending on operating systems, types of printers etc. it is best if you contact us at:  it-help [at] biota [dot] utoronto [dot] ca

We'll set you up.

Just write to it-help [at] biota [dot] utoronto [dot] ca

If you get an auto-message from UTORmail stating that your Inbox and folders are over-quota, read the rest of the message and follow the instructions.

If you haven't read the whole message, you'll have missed some important information:

UofT provides free licenses to Symantec Anti-Virus (SAV) and the newer Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for staff, students and faculty for use on- and off-campus.

SEP is like SAV but adds a built-in anti-spyware program.  For details and downloads, go to:

http://antivirus.utoronto.ca/

Recently available is Microsoft's Security Essentials, which is similar to SEP but is possibly superior.  Under license only for home use.  For details and downloads, go to:

UTORweb provides a web server and space for personal web pages, pictures, word-processing documents, etc. This can be used to share documents with others. Or it can be used to give the owner a convenient way to save and access documents from any networked computer. When sharing, others access your documents from a browser.

Worm:Win32/Hamweq.B is a windows worm that spreads via removable drives, such as USB memory sticks (This is common in our case, as people use USB sticks a lot to transfer data between computers.). It contains an IRC-based backdoor, which may be used by a remote attacker to order the affected machine to participate in Distributed Denial of Service attacks, or to download and execute arbitrary files... Read more