EXEC ON FRIDAY
Clearly eager to make progress IC President, Mustafa Arif has called an Exec meeting on Friday. Despite promises made to Live! only a week ago to improve communications between ICU and its membership, this meeting is not on the Union events calendar, nor the exec website. The proposed agenda includes revisions to the Ents budget and ICU presence at the NUS national demo. With only a limited number of the exec present at the time being it is hoped that the boundless enthusiasm of the new Exec doesn’t result in their making any rash decisions. The meeting will take place on Friday 15th August at 2pm.
IC HIT BY BLASTER WORM
PC users across IC have been affected by the Blaster Worm, a self-propagating computer virus that has recently been making its way across the internet, wreaking havoc in its wake. Soon after the first reporting of the worm on an IC computer, ICT shut their networks down to help prevent the virus from spreading. As a result email access has been restricted to web access and there is no access to shared drives. It is likely that these measures helped limit the spread of the virus since only 50-60 PCs out of a potential 1000s at IC have been affected.
There is an element of humour in all this though. The worm is said to contain the message “billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software”. This is in response to the fact that the virus (like most) only affects computers running Microsoft’s operating systems. The closest MS get to an ‘apology’ for this is a page on their website explaining (with relevant downloads) how to protect oneself against the worm or deal with it once it’s there. These recent events however serve as a reminder that intimate contact with others comes at the risk of contracting dangerous viruses.
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