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Issue
40 - June 2004
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Features
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Using
the Server-side Spam Filtering Service
Spam,
or junk mail, refers to unsolicited
commercial e-mail (UCE) and unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).
Example includes unsolicited advertisements. Spam spreads everywhere
on the Internet nowadays and create problems to most of the e-mail
users. Although e-mail companies and standards bodies are trying
to work on new ways to deal with this problem, receiving junk mail
is still unavoidable with today's e-mail standards and technology...
Restrictions
on Delivering E-mail with Unsafe Attachments
Unsafe
attachments of e-mails may threaten the security or integrity of
the recipient's computer when they are opened. For example, opening
an e-mail attachment with extension such as ".exe", ".vbs"
or ".scr" causes it to be executed as a program. Executing
a malicious program may unleash harmful payloads (e.g. a computer
virus) and damage your computer...
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What's Up
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CSC
Strives to Ensure a Virus-Free Environment
IThe Sasser
virus and its variants have been rampaging on the Internet since
May 2004. According to the information provided by Symantec, Sasser
is an Internet worm spreading through the MS04-011 (LSASS) vulnerability...
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Brief Glance at the Usage of Video Conferencing Facility
The Video Conferencing
facility (VC) has always been popular among CityU users, and have
you ever wondered what it is used for?...
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New Way to Connect: USB Device
In recent
years, most computers connect to external devices in a new way, known
as Universal Serial Bus (USB). USB is an easy way to connect to numerous
types of devices including printers, digital cameras, game pads, joysticks,
keyboards, mouse devices, and storage devices etc. As USB is a very
commonly used standard, let us look at it in more detail and see how
it is supported in the University.... |
User Education
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Tech
Terms: Do You Know What They Mean?
Some of the
technical terms we use in our daily work were mentioned in our last
issue. This issue, we shall continue to provide definitions of the
ones that were often raised at the CSC Help Desk...
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