University Park, PA -- In an effort to curtail the proliferation of computer viruses at Penn State, Academic Services and Emerging Technologies (ASET), a unit of Information Technology Services (ITS), will install virus protection software on Penn State's back-end, outgoing e-mail servers (smtp.psu.edu). The servers will be updated, one server per day, beginning on May 24 and ending on May 27, during the regular daily maintenance window between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. Any message with a virus sent from Penn State through smtp.psu.edu automatically will forward to Security Operations and Services (SOS), also a unit of ITS, for notification. SOS will determine the sender of the e-mail and take appropriate action.
Virus protection on Penn State's outgoing e-mail servers is the first step in a series of steps to improve the security of the central e-mail system at Penn State. Later this summer, ITS plans to continue this effort by installing virus protection software on Penn State's incoming e-mail servers.
For more information, visit http://aset.its.psu.edu/announcements/smtpvirus.html