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Email downtime

Due to an unusual set of circumstances, we had to turn off email for about an hour today. A combination of a new email virus/worm, disk space, and email lists, and mail scanning, all combined with some bad luck and we ended up allowing almost everyone on campus to recieve the latest Windows email virus/worm […]

February 17, 2004 4:35 pm by

No more MyDoom messages

Since there is such a high volume of the MyDoom infected email attachments flying around these days and some unlucky people have been getting hundreds of the email messages saying that we removed the attachment, we have now stopped sending those notifications for MyDoom. So if you are sent an email that is infected with […]

February 6, 2004 9:32 am by

iChat AV 2.1

Finally! The new version of iChat AV finally supports video conferences with PC users that download the latest version of AOL’s IM client. So much for our internet connection 🙂 Contact Us Phone: 507-933-6111 Email: helpline@gustavus.edu Web: https://gustavus.edu/gts Blog: https://gts.blog.gustavus.edu Remote Support: https://sos.gac.edu System Status: https://gustavus.freshstatus.io

February 5, 2004 1:12 pm by

Power Problems

This morning during a regular check of the backup generator, power was lost in our machine room. For the most part this meant everything was down for about 20 minutes starting near 8:30am. Everything should have been up and running as normal by 9:00am. Contact Us Phone: 507-933-6111 Email: helpline@gustavus.edu Web: https://gustavus.edu/gts Blog: https://gts.blog.gustavus.edu Remote […]

February 4, 2004 10:49 am by

Wireless in Olin

As a part of testing what we can do with wireless network access, we have placed 2 wireless access points on the 1st floor of Olin. These 2 access points appear to provide the first floor with fairly good coverage. This includes the class room on the 1st floor, the lobby, and the lab. I […]

February 3, 2004 9:26 am by

Network slowness

From Jeff’s email: “Around 11:15-11:30 something happened that crippled the res-hall network to the point of unusability. We made a change to revert something to the way it was around four months ago and that seems to have solved the problem. Our two outstanding questions are, did that fix it? and if so, Why was […]

January 30, 2004 1:28 pm by

Latest email virus

As everyone should know by now, another email virus is going around. As far as we can tell, nobody on campus has been infected yet. Our mailserver is deleting a lot of attachments that are infected with this virus and anything that made it through should also be caught by the latest virus definitions. However […]

January 27, 2004 12:46 pm by

SpamAssassin update

I made a few updates to SpamAssassin this morning. First I upgraded from version 2.61 to 2.63 which included a few bug fixes and some minor changes to the rules. Second, I enabled real time block list and DCC checking. That means SpamAssassin will query servers on the net to see if email matches a […]

January 23, 2004 12:15 pm by

ITMS and Packeteer problem

Yesterday we added a few plugins to our Packeteer that helps prioritize our internet usage. one of those plugins was called Apple iTunes 1.0.0. After installing this plugin I noticed that the iTunes Music Store became extremely slow and mostly unusable. One workaround was to set my system to use our proxy server. While it […]

January 21, 2004 8:31 am by

Spamassassin 2.62

Spamassassin version 2.62 was just released. I am testing it on my mail account and if all goes well, I will upgrade the spamd server to 2.62 as well. Summary of major changes since 2.61 ———————————– – Fixed two bugs related to Received line generation and parsing. – Modified two rules to reduce false positives. […]

January 19, 2004 4:32 pm by

 
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