New Printer

The lab printer decided to go ahead and eat its fuser, was not good.  However there is some good news as we are replacing the again printer with a new fast color laser printer.  This should make a lot of students happy.

DNSChanger malware found on Campus

DNSChanger is a Trojan horse that was distributed in many forms, and when installed it actively changes the infected system’s DNS settings to rogue servers that redirect legitimate searches and URLs to malicious Web sites that attempt to steal personal information and generate illegitimate ad revenue for the scammers.

The Mac variants of the malware, found starting in 2008. These have been distributed through Web sites disguised as required video codecs for QuickTime, and as with the Windows versions, when installed the Trojan would change the system’s DNS settings to servers that would redirect legitimate Web URLs to malicious sites.

New Lab Location Update

Residential Computing has seen a large increase in foot traffic since our move.  We were located in Landers Hall on the second floor.  We moved from there to our current location on the north side of Valsetz where we share our space with the RSC (Residential Service Center). 

BOTS

We have seen an increase of BOT activity in the last month.  Infected computer get placed into quarantine until it can be scanned and cleaned.  So far we have not seen any trends on how the computers are getting infected.