THOQ UILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Could the end be near for IT&S problemsP
Taleisha Bowen
Associate Editor
Students, faculty, and staff
have experienced problems
with the campus server since
the beginning of the school
year.
Hopefully, the end to those
problems is near.
Information Technology &
Services (IT&S) will have a
new server installed by Feb.
9. Student share spaces will
be moved from the server
Hobbs to the as-yet-unnamed
server. The new server should
help split campus traffic so
that the time it takes to log in
and out should decrease
drastically. IT&S staff hopes
this will solve the campus net
work problems.
"The servers are not cutting
edge technology but they're
still powerful," James Lyons, a
sophomore IT&S Help Desk
worker, said. "They are fully
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Matt Haselton
Staff Writer
When students returned to
campus after winter break to
begin the spring semester,
many were surprised to find
that they could no longer ac
cess Duke Hall due to renova
tions. Students have also
been surprised by the total
estimated cost of the project:
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IT&S employee Kitri Waterman hard at work
capable of doing their jobs.
It's just that they're being
asked to do huge amounts of
work."
What caused the problems?
$1,985,000.
"Usually when [the college]
spends that kind of money I
don't like it, but in the case of
Duke, it's pretty much need
ed" said senior Daniel Wor
rall, an Office of Enrollment
tour guide.
Worrall says that when his
tour groups walks by Duke,
he jokingly says, "This is
Duke Hall. It was built in the
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Students arrived in August
bringing worms, viruses, and
trojans with them. The three
biggest threats to the campus
were the Blaster worm,
worms in the Mimail family,
1800's, and I don't think it has
been renovated since."
In actuality, the building was
built in 1897, with the last ma
jor renovations completed in
1967, with "very little" done
since, according to Vice Pres
ident and Chief Financial Offi
cer Phil Manz.
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and the Admin virus.
The Blaster worm attacked
computers running Windows
2000 and XP, causing infect
ed computers to pass on the
worm and then crash. Mimail
affected both computers and
the campus's connection to
the Internet by sending out
mass e-mails and attempting
to collect secure information
from computer users, includ
ing credit card and Social Se
curity numbers. The Admin
virus also sent out mass e
mails and attempted to crash
computers.
IT&S workers contained the
threats by turning off dorm In
ternet access and providing
disks to clean computers.
All three threats are still pre
sent on networked comput
ers, mainly because many
students are not aware of the
problems, or that they can be
fixed. IT&S still offers disks
that will eradicate the Blaster
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virus, and IT&S Help Desk
workers can walk students
through the process of "virus
proofing" their computers.
These problems were main
ly contained by the time
midterms hit, though access
to the Internet campus-wide
was sporadic at best. The un
predictability of the network
was then due to multiple
causes.
First, the backbone of the
residence hall connections to
the Internet was a separate
network. Over the summer,
the technology of that network
was upgraded and put back
on the main campus network.
Also, the campus installed a
restricted firewall fall semes
ter in an effort to minimize risk
of infection from other major
worms and viruses. This
meant that only a certain
number of connections to the
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