Management Information Systems (MIS) is a section of the Engineering Fiscal and Personnel Office
that supports the Information Technology resources of the College of Engineering. We directly
support the server and workstation infrastructure of the administration, maintain the Internet point-of-presence
for the College, and act as network, software license, and security liasons for the entire College.
Latest News/Announcements
Warning about email, telephone, Myspace, and Facebook scams [August 8, 2008]
I apologize for the length of this message. MIS staff have received quite a few calls and email messages about various fraudulent emails and phone calls recently, and I think it is important to help you understand the various schemes you will encounter. Please be aware of the following schemes, and if you are the target of one, you should simply ignore it:
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A New Way of Calling MIS [August 7, 2008]
It is sometime humorous to hear the round robin of extensions ringing as someone tries to get in touch with us here in MIS. Rather than call our main number, they try to reach an individual. So first we hear the phone ring at one desk two or three times, then another, and then a third. By the time we can get up to get the phone or dial the pickup code the person at the other end is already trying to ring someone else, so until they dial someone who is in the office, we can't answer their call.
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UF E-Mail Phishing Alert [July 30, 2008]
UF users should be aware and not respond to an e-mail claiming to need your name and account password due to web mail maintenance. This e-mail is a scam targeting UF users in order to steal your identity or gain access to your e-mail account. UF IT administrators will never ask you for your account password, especially in e-mail. You can see the text of this most recent attempt (any many previous ones) on the InfoSec IT Security Advisory page.
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College of Engineering Fiscal Calendar Woes [July 29, 2008]
Bummed about not having the Gator Engineering fiscal year calendar
this year? We were! Instead of sitting around complaining about it we've
compiled all the same dates into an Outlook calendar which you can
import into your personal or office calendars.
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Phony UPS emails used as bait to spread the Agent.JEN Trojan [July 21, 2008] Panda Security
PandaLabs has detected the appearance of a series of emails used to spread the Agent.JEN Trojan.
These messages, with subjects like “UPS packet N3621583925”, purport to come from the package delivery company UPS. The message body informs the recipient that it was impossible to deliver a postal package sent by them and advises them to print out a copy of the attached invoice copy.
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Installation of Office 2003 Service Pack 3 [July 17, 2008]
Office 2003 Service Pack 3 has a known issue with Access 2003 which causes the number formatting in generated listboxes to not show currency properly. There are known display problems where it doesn't display the '$', it doesn't justify, or doesn't show two decimal places. We have programmatically looked for fixes and have been waiting on this issue to be addressed by Microsoft. At this time there is still nothing we can do about how this data is displayed. They data is good, it just doesn't display properly.
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