Security

USM offers a few tools for free to students and faculty to help you keep your computer secure:

Virus Protection

Symantec Coorporate Edition - A Virus scanner. This will protect you against most viruses.
Remember to keep it updated. Symantec updates your virus scanner frequently of any new viruses that might pose a threat to your system.

Download for:

Symantec Antivirus for Windows Vista

Symantec Antivirus for Windows Vista 64-bit (untested)

Symantec Antivirus for Windows 2000, XP, 2003

Symantec Antivirus for Mac OS X 10.4.10 or higher

Symantec Antivirus for Mac OS X 10.3 - 10.4.9

Symantec Antivirus for Mac OS X 10.2 or less

Spyware Protection

Ad-Aware SE Personal - A Spyware search and removal program.

Download:

Ad-Aware SE Personal for Windows Vista/XP

Spybot Search and Destroy - Another Spyware search and removal program.

Download:

Spybot Search and Destroy for Windows Vista/XP

Microsoft Windows Antispyware - A anti-spyware program designed by microsoft. Any of the programs above will run on a windows machine, This link is just microsoft's version.

Download:

Microsoft Windows Antispyware for Windows XP/Vista