Classroom and Lab Computing

Tips

Virus Scanning

We do not scan your private files for viruses, trojans, worms or other malicious programs.  The best prevention is to not launch an attachment unless you know what it is and that the sender sent it to you on purpose.  Of course, "macros" hidden in Word files and other such worms may slip in.

Lab machines are fairly well "locked down", so that system files and the registry can't be easily corrupted, so we generally don't worry about local disks.

Most virus scanners will scan your files on networked drives.

On CLC lab machine go to the Start menu, pick Accessories, then Network Associates VirusScan NT, then VirusScan.  Click on the Browse button to select your folder on drive U:, e.g., U:\x\y\xyz123.

Explorer Shortcut

(A "Home" icon has been added to lab desktops.  Nevertheless, this tip might be useful at other locations.)

You may wish to put an icon on the desktop to open Explorer right to your home directory.  One way to do this:

• Right-click the desktop
• Pick New, then Shortcut
• Enter Explorer /e,root,%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% for the Command Line
• Enter Home for the name of the shortcut

Eudora

Attachment Directory

If you have chosen to keep mail on the "U:" drive, you may want to change the Attachment Directory -- where Eudora will put attachments.  Do this via the Tools/Options menu items, and then Attachments.

(A new StartEudora program, which is used to launch Eudora in the student labs, started doing this for you around 2/20/99.)

Moving Old Mail

If you have some mail message on a diskette and want them merged in with your messages on the server:

• Exit Eudora if it is running.
• Copy the .mbx file(s) from the diskette to your U:\x\y\xyz123\Eudora directory, giving them a temporary name so as not to replace the existing ones.
• Restart Eudora; the temporary mailboxes should show up.
• Move the desired mail messages to your permanent mail box(es).
• Exit Eudora
• Erase the temporary files from U:\...

Eudora Says: "Your table of contents have been changed since your last logon: Create New, Use Old, or Cancel"

For some reason the time stamp on the in.toc file gets too far off from the in.mbx file.  You could pick "Create New" which would fix it, until another day when the file timess get out of sync again.

A more permanent fix is to put the line:

  TocDateLeeway=300

in the [Settings] section of your Eudora.ini . . . we've done that for the default copy of that file, but that will help only new people.