ITS is proactive in our efforts to protect the University community from computer virus attacks. ITS provides an automated anti-virus scanning service on the UH mail server. The anti-virus scanner will scan the email messages that pass through the UH mail server and deletes any infected email messages.

The use of an anti-virus scanner on the mail server does not eliminate the need for you to have a up-to-date desktop anti-virus software like McAfee VirusScan or Virex installed on your computer. For more information, please visit the Computer Virus Information page.

If you are interested in how the anti-virus scanner is doing, please visit the Antivirus Scanner page. The graph will be updated by the tenth day of every month.

ITS Tip: There are two ways to protect your email.

• If you use an email service that does not have an anti-virus scanner, you may set up your UH Email Account to automatically scan and forward your email before you read it on your unprotected email service.
  How to forward email on your UH Email Account
  1. Please visit UH WebMail with a web browser i.e. Netscape or Internet Explorer.
  2. Log into your UH Email Account
  3. Select Options in the Web Mail toolbar
  4. Select Settings on the left side of the window
  5. Set up the mail forwarding feature on your UH Email Account and forward your email messages to your preferred email service.
     
  6. Log out of UH Web Mail
  7. Tell your friends and colleagues to send email to your UH Email Account. Your email messages will automatically be scanned by the anti-virus scanner on the UH mail server and will be sent to the email address that you typed into the mail forwarding box.
• If you do not want to use the first method, you may choose to manually send selected email messages, that you want scanned for viruses, to your UH email account. If the email message appears in your mailbox, the message is okay. If the email message does not appear in your mailbox within 15 minutes, the message probably contained a known virus and was deleted by the anti-virus scanner.

ref: http://www.hawaii.edu/its/email/emailpractices.html#antivirusinfo

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