San Jose City College Times, Vol. 51, Issue 15, Nov 20, 1997

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Holidays are time to ease guilt Page 2

Jaguars break losing streak Page 3

Alumnus pens art show Page 4

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Volume 51, No.15

Thursday, November 20, 1997

Peabody's, ... In a burst of flames they descend ... ' offices hit by thieves Sonya Wormington Editor-in-Chief

In a series of brazen thefts, San d Jose City College has been hurd glarized three times in a period of two months. The thefts, which occurred on I Sept 14, Nov. 3 and Nov. 8, kept ; Campus Police busy on Nov. 12, with officers arresting· three susJill JX!CIS for the first two incidences. 11 ~ The Nov. 3 theft of computer ro equipment from the Counseling and building resulted in the arrest of two City College students, one for :i~ bur~ary and giving a false identity n~ lopolice officers and the other for f in burglary and receiving stolen prop-

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00 Thetheftoccurredbetween6:20 p.m.Nov. 3 and 12:40 p.m. Nov.4 ~ alXI resulted in the loss of $1100 r~ W orth of office equipment, including acomputer, keyboard, mouse, ipeaker, monitor, chair and as~ office supplies. I sc The equipment was later relrieved from one of the suspect's ~ upon the time of his arrest. One of the suspects was identi1 fll ~ as being found hiding in a cabinet in the Counseling building ~day of the thefts. ~ The Sept. 14 incident occurred ' altez Campus Police opened the cafeteria to allow a man to "take )(} t some old mille" and drop off a 'II ' . ! supplies to Peabody's Coffee di ~. during which the man took ~ S!&s from a cash box in the shop. 0 The suspect, who was previ~ employed by Peabody's, aled ~edly gave the police a different be e in order to be allowed enet bance into the cafeteria Jl· lbe suspectallegedlyattempted be ~gam entrance to the coffee shop · on Oct. 24, when he entered gb the rear entrance after the Jl1 eteria was closed. .1be suspect was arrested on · · 12 for burglary and giving information to police. 1be most recent incident, an . pted burglary, is the only int in which a suspect has not ~arrested. .In the early hours of Nov. 8, a won theW sideoftheCoun. g building was forced open aprytooL Acomputermonimid tower case were moved awarentattempt to steal them. ~ding to police, there are y no suspects in the Nov. 8

Mari Matsumoto/The Captain Moe and his firefighting men to the rescue!!! Kelly Huff watched as her Honda Civic was slowly eaten by flames after her car caught fire on Nov. 12. San Jose firemen worked diligently to

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put out the flames and reduce the amount of damage to the car. Campus police stated that the fire was due to a battery short out, which damaged the engine and caused the fire to sta"',

Viruses 'sicken' computers Gobble! in City College labs, network Gobble! Turkey Break!

Cyndi Kessler Staff Writer

A rash of computer viruses has hit the San lost City College B4 and B6 PC labs, the Journalism lab, as well as facu lty and staff computers. To combat this problem, the Technology Comittee unanimously approved the purchase of a virus program for all computers at San Jose City College, at a total cost of $3850. Some faculty computers have been infected by the Cap.A virus, which has been transmitted over the Microsoft Exchange network. The virus, which cannot be detected by the current anti virus program. prevents users from saving Microsoft Word ftles correctly. A solution is currently being worked on. "Right now it's really just a nuisance, but we don't know what else the virus can do," said Eugene Canoy, Computer Technical Support. Faculty and staff were warned to scan all disks that are brought from home. Also, unscanned disks from others should not be used in campus computers. One of the viruses in the computer lab, Laroux, removes a small portion of a Microsoft Excel file every time it is opened, and the file is destroyed. Other viruses such as Neurobasher, Anticmos, and Staallcer

make disks unusable and cause computer downtime. Another virus, called Sampo, has been reoccurring in the lab for four years. They were most common in the B4 lab, which has open lab time for students. Files from home, or those downloaded from the Internet have infected the lab computers, which then in turn infected the office computers of instructors . "First it affects one machine, then the student walks to another machine without checking their disks," said Canoy. Only four students in the CIS41 class lost information because of the Laroux virus, but the damage was more widespread in the lab computers. "Two weeks ago when this happened, 90% of the machines had a virus," said Dave Junek, Instructional Assistant for the CIS department According to Canoy, the old method of having students check their disks as they entered the lab was too time cons lUlling. Students were forced to wait in a line before they could begin working. The new method will allow lab aides to get viruses under control faster, if students notify them that there is a problem. "It just slowed things down a bit, only because students saw that there was a virus, but didn't know what to do. If you find something, let us know," said student aide Curtis George.

No School Nov. 27-28! Happy Thanksgiving!


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