Youtube and other site access

If you are short a website, such as youtube, let use know. The filter that we installed does a campus wide block, we then have to go back and unblock teacher machines. Email us at mtv.rams.it@gmail.com with the subject Site Access, you will need to let us know the site you want unblocked and the machine that you are using. If it is a site such as blogger.com we will unblock it for everyone, sites such as youtube.com will be unblocked on a machine by machine basis.

Free Online Hard Drive Space -

If you are looking for some extra hard drive space that is mobile, check out http://wwww.box.net. They will give you 1 GB of free hard drive space, it is online and accessible anywhere that has the internet. I seem to lose pen drives all the time so I use my account quite often.

AVG License Renewel

If you are being prompted at login for a re-activation of your AVG license, let us know. We will swing by and update you to the latest version, 8.0. This program also includes an anti-spyware program. If you need the update email mtv.rams.it@gmail.com - for tracking purposes include AVG Update in the title of the email.

False Anti-Virus Alert

One of the newer web spoofs out there is involving a fake anti-virus software called Anti-Virus 2009 or 2008 (depending on what site you are on). Once clicking on an infected site you will be prompted with what appears to be a window from an anti-virus program informing you of several instances of viruses on your PC. Once clicking on the remove button, the site will download several instances of spyware on your machine. It can be quite confusing and often time looks very legit, when you are prompted with the offer, back out of the site you are currently on. Contact the IT Dept. ASAP, the longer this spyware is on your PC the more difficult removal becomes.

Welcome

Welcome to the official blog from the Mt. Vernon High School IT Department. Through this blog we hope to keep the faculty and staff up to date on what we are working on. Also we hope that this proves to be a reference point to answer the frequently asked questions.