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Does the University provide antivirus protection for my computer?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Frequently Asked Questions, Security, Service Catalog, Software, Virus & Malware Protection on May 2, 2011
The University owns licenses for antivirus products that can be used on University owned Mac and Windows computers. For University owned Windows computers, the University uses Trend-Micro Antivirus. For University owned Macintosh computers, the University uses Symantec Endpoint Protection. For personally owned computers the University has licensed Command Antivirus. Alternatively, for personally owned computers, there [...]
IBM SPSS Statistics
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Service Catalog, Software on April 8, 2011
SPSS is an industry-standard statistical processing package that is used at Tufts University. The package offers extensive statistical graphics and data mining capabilities. Alternatives to SPSS include SAS, STATA, and R. Tufts has entered into a site licensing agreement with SPSS that covers the three most widely used modules of the SPSS software family. Base – [...]
SAS
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Service Catalog, Software on April 8, 2011
SAS is a statistical software package licensed from the SAS Institute. More information about the software can be found at http://www.sas.com . License Term The term of this license is annual. The license expires and must be renewed each year. License Codes When the license is renewed each year, the vendor sends Tufts a new [...]
Patch Management
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Security, Service Catalog on April 7, 2011
The School of Medicine provides a Windows Update Service for Windows computers. The patches include all patches for Windows and other Microsoft products including Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook). All patches are approved for use on a monthly basis, and released on the second Tuesday of every month. Patches for frequently used programs [...]