Welcome to the Social Ecology Computing Services web site. We provide information technology, facilities and support to help the faculty, staff and students of the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine meet their learning, teaching and research goals. For assistance you may find answers here on our web site or feel free to contact our office. Submit a request via our web site or you may contact our office by calling (949) 824-8202 or sending email to se.computing@uci.edu.
Thunderbird Transition and Virus Prevention
Thunderbird
The School of Social Ecology as been making an exciting change with its email client. Along with other units on campus we are transitioning to Mozilla’s Thunderbird Thunderbird is an open source email client that has been around for years. Compared to other email clients like Outlook and Eudora (Eudora is not compitable with Windows 7), Thunderbird offers many similar features and many unique features. If you are a faculty member and would like to inquire about this transition please send an email to se.computing@uci.edu. If you would like to read more about Thunderbird just click on the Thunderbird image.
Virus Prevention
Computer viruses are an ongoing problem across the Internet. OIT now scans incoming e-mail for viruses and cleans up infected messages. This protection is available only to messages sent to your @UCI.EDU address. S.E. Computing services also installs McAfee anti-virus and malware protection. If you believe your anti-virus is out of date please send an email to se.computing@uci.edu. Here are some tips to prevent from being infected by viruses:
- Do not open emails from addresses that you are not familiar with.
- Avoid opening emails or web pages that have free offers.
- Avoid visiting web sites that offer free computer virus scanning.
- UCI WILL NEVER ask for your password or username.
Computer security at UCI
Just a reminder, there are several resources available at http://security.uci.edu/ that help promote safe computing on campus. In particular there is a handy brochure available at http://security.uci.edu/resources.php which can be a great overview of steps you can take to help everyone on campus enjoy a safe computing environment. Here's a fun little game to help you get familiar with the different types of web sites: Anti-Phishing Phil http://www.wombatsecurity.com/antiphishing_phil/index.html
