The Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) is a cooperative effort on the development of information technology and services among the Computer Centres of the eight government-funded tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. As an active member, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has participated in ...

Unsafe attachments of e-mails may threaten the security or integrity of the recipient's computer when they are opened. For example, opening an e-mail attachment with extension such as ".exe", ".vbs" or ".scr" causes it to be executed as a program. Executing a malicious program may unleash harmful ...

Spam, or junk mail, refers to unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) and unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Example includes unsolicited advertisements. Spam spreads everywhere on the Internet nowadays and create problems to most of the e-mail users. Although e-mail companies and standards bodies are ...

The Video Conferencing facility (VC) has always been popular among CityU users, and have you ever wondered what it is used for? The use of VC in CityU can be catalogued into the following types: Remote classroom: Either lecturers or students are found at the far end. This kind of classes has been ...

In the early days, as long as computer viruses were transferred by floppy disks, they spread slowly. However, e-mail has changed all that. Now you can exchange files much more quickly and infecting your PC is as easy as clicking on an icon - or easier. E-mail has become the biggest source of viruses ...