Public Workstation Update Begins Wednesday, 28 September 2005
On Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005, ITS will begin rebuilding the public workstations with a revised image. The biggest change in the new image is the ability to display web sites written in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. The image also includes the latest versions of Adobe Reader (7.0.3), Java, Quicktime, Flash, Shockwave, Media Player, and the Symantec Antivirus software.
To improve security on the public workstations, Internet Explorer will now clear the "Temprorary Internet Files" area when it is closed. ITS has determined that the viruses and spyware found on the public workstations are almost always located in this area. Making this change will result in the spyware and viruses being wiped out as soon as the browser is closed. The only impact the students may notice is that browsing the internet may be slightly slower, since the "Temporary Internet Files" area is used to cache files to speed up web browsing.
The other configuration change made to Internet Explorer is that the "days to keep pages in history" has been set to to keep only one day of history information (Internet Explorer does not give the option to keep no history information). The history keeps track of the names of web sites the PC has visited in the past. The new, lower setting will reduce the number of old entries in the history area.
