Computer Information

Anti-Virus Software

University Computers

VirusScan 7.1 Enterprise is the anti-virus software installed on all University owned Windows computers. Macintosh computers are protected by Virev 7.2.1. These programs are installed by the IT staff on all University computers.

Home Computers

VirusScan 8 Home Edition is an anti-virus program available to University staff and students. You are entitled to use this software on a personal computer at home until 31 December 2004. Click here to find out more about VirusScan 8 Home Edition.

Webmail Interface

Webmail enables University staff and students to communicate by email from any location where they have access to the Internet.

• Use your web browser to go to the following page: http://home.staff.unimelb.edu.au for staff or
  http://home.student.unimelb.edu.au for students.
• Enter your Username and Pasword and click the Login button.
• More information about the Webmail interface can be found here.

IT Courses

The Information Technology Centre offers many IT skills training courses for staff. For information about IT courses available for students, click here.

Spam

Unwanted or unsolicited email is often referred to as Spam mail. Spam is a common and annoying problem affecting all email users. This link contains some useful information about Spam, how you get it and how to deal with it. http://www.studentit.unimelb.edu.au/itguide/security/dealing.html

The University of Melbourne has developed a centralised Anti-Spam solution for staff and students. Every message that is centrally scanned is assessed and given a score based on the likelihood of it being Spam. To allow Webmail (and other e-mail software) to filter automatically, a mail header is added to each e-mail containing the Spam score. For more information on how to set up a spam filter, go to the following link. http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/systems/spam/

How To

• Add a printer [.pdf 48KB].
• Get rid of Eudora's 'Remote Instance' error message. When Eudora is launched, it creates an owner.lok file in your mymail folder. If you get a warning about a remote instance, that file has not been deleted (crashing out of Eudora doesn't give it the opportunity to clean up after itself and sometimes leaves a corrupted owner.lok file). Delete this file (usually in H:\mymail) and you should be able to open Eudora again without the remote instance dialog box.

• 'Unblock' your e-mail download to Eudora. Occasionally Eudora will stall during the process of downloading your e-mail form the University mail server. This is because a temporary file created during the download of a virus-laden message has been deleted by the departmental file server. However, the message is still sitting on the University mail server. The solution is to login to the webmail interface and delete the offending message, most likely to be the oldest message

• Anti-virus Software
• Webmail Interface
• IT Courses
• Spam
• How to:
  • add a printer
  • get rid of Eudora's 'Remote Instance' error message
  • 'unblock' your e-mail download to Eudora