Students

All medical students are apprised of their login name and password when they start their first year here, but graduate students may not get an account set up before they come. If graduate studies gives us the names of the graduate students coming in, we set up all the accounts that we have names for. For class listservs, see the Faculty and Staff page.

If you are a graduate student and find that you don't have an account on our network, contact us or come by our office in the basement of the Medical Library and we'll create one for you.

Virus Information

We have a file that will get rid of a lot of worms or viruses. It's under the F: drive, Sys on Dcsmserver, in the Public directory. Look for Stinger.exe. This file is updated regularly, so the latest one is always there in the public directory.

Do not open any files that end in .zip, .pif, .scr, or .exe unless you know for sure it's authentic because worms and viruses send themselves out to you as files with these attachments. The virus creators are getting very creative in the way they get you to open their virus, so be careful. If you're not sure, call the person who sent it to you or just delete it. Better to be safe than sorry.

POP3 Email Information

You would think if that option wasn't checked, it would delete your email from our servers when you pulled it to your email program. That isn't the case and all students need to check their email programs to make sure it is deleting all messages off our servers.

To find these options, go to Tools, Email Accounts (sometimes Accounts), find the email account for the School of Medicine, highlight it and click the Properties (sometimes Edit) button. You should see and Advanced tab. Under Advanced, you should find your options toward the bottom. Check to delete from server after 1 or 2 days. Also check "Remove from server when deleted from "Deleted Items". This will keep your school email account clean and free of problems.