As colleges get ready to welcome new crops of freshmen this fall, technology officers are bracing for the viruses that those students’ computers will unleash onto campus networks. Fall is the most trying time of year for college network administrators, in large part because new students—and returning students who took their laptops home for the summer—often connect their own virus-ridden computers with thousands of other machines.
To keep their computers as clean as possible, institutions like Wellesley College are requiring students to download antivirus software when they first log on to the campus network. Wellesley also uses a program that checks students’ machines to make sure they are set up according to the college’s specifications, reports E-Commerce Times. —Brock Read
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