{"id":14031,"date":"2009-12-15T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=14031"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:50:39","slug":"malware-viruses-attacking-nau-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/malware-viruses-attacking-nau-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Malware,\u2019 viruses attacking NAU computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU has experienced a higher than normal volume of computer \u201cmalware\u201d and virus incidents in recent weeks. These incidents disguise themselves as legitimate-looking security update screens.<\/p>\n<p>Computer users are being fooled into accepting \u201cupdates\u201d that actually infect their systems. ITS is working to resolve and prevent further incidents of this nature.<\/p>\n<p>ITS has put a short video together to help you identify when your system has been compromised. The one-minute video may be viewed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lpd.nau.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2009\/12\/malware.swf\">lpd.nau.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/2009\/12\/malware.swf<\/a>\u00a0or through the ITS web page at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nau.edu\/its\">nau.edu\/its<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/malware-viruses-attacking-nau-computers\/\">NAU has experienced a higher than normal volume of computer \u201cmalware\u201d and virus incidents in recent weeks. These incidents disguise themselves as legitimate-looking security update screens. Computer users are being fooled into accepting \u201cupdates\u201d that actually infect their systems. ITS is working to resolve and prevent further incidents of this nature. ITS has put a&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}