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Renewing Vipre subscription
How to renew your Vipre subscription when you receive the message that your Vipre subscription has expired.
Free licensed anti-virus software for your personal Windows computer
In an effort to help protect our faculty, visiting members, staff and their families at home, the Institute for Advanced Study provides a free licensed copy of an anti-virus application called Vipre. You may install this on all personal computers. With just your IAS username and password, you may download this anti-virus software through the following link https://security.ias.edu/personal-anti-virus-protection
Do-it-yourself: How to clean an infected computer
Is your computer infected? Here’s a link on basic information about viruses and a few lists of tips and resources here
How to Protect Yourself from Viruses
One of the best ways to protect yourself from a virus is to know something about the way they work. By learning how to be a smart computer user in your own right, you can successfully navigate around a majority of the infectious material that lurks about waiting to strike. The Information Technology Group has supplied this page, containing several sections on virus-safe computing, so that you might have the information you need to keep yourself uninfected right at your fingertips.
Know Your Source
Information on Viruses
Discovering that a computer virus has infected your PC or your work files can induce a lot of anxiety; it may even cause you to panic. Our best advice? Try to relax yourself, chances are you're not going to lose any work and your machine will remain operational. Have a look at the information below if you need help, or have any questions.
How to clean a machine that is infected with a virus
If your machine has been infected with a virus. Please see information below to assist you to remove the virus.
1. Make sure your antivirus software definitions are up to date.
2. Use other third-party utility to clean the virus, trojan or worm. It is possible that your current antivirus software will not detect everything so using multiple utilities will give you peace of mind. You may download, install and update these free utilities to use for cleaning infections:
