Faculty and Staff:
Technological threats in the form of viruses and malware have become more prevalent. As a result, ISR has taken steps to increase the protection of your Bucknell-owned Windows computer.
Beginning this week, we will remotely "push out" a new anti-virus and anti-spyware program called Sophos. It will replace the Symantec Antivirus and SpySweeper software packages many of you are running today.
What will you notice? The gold shield and the crosshair icon (if you have one) will disappear from your taskbar in the lower right-portion of the screen. It will be replaced by a "pretty blue shield" that is striped on the left and solid on the right.
What do you need to do? That's the best part! Not much. All we ask is to make sure your computer is connected to the wired network over the next few weeks. (Sophos cannot be installed over wireless.) The installation will occur on its own without any intervention from you.
This process will take approximately two weeks. In that amount of time we hope to have successfully installed Sophos on most of your computers. We will continue to actively scan the network after this time period to catch machines we miss during this initial rollout.
Finally, we are happy to announce our Sophos license agreement allows us to extend this protection to your personal Windows computer(s) as well (much in the same way our Symantec agreement did). Please watch for future communication announcing how Sophos will be made available to you. Until then, Symantec Antivirus will continue to protect your home machine(s) as it always has until July 1st.
Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact Tech Support at techdesk@bucknell.edu or by calling 7-7777.
