Students who desire to connect their own personal computer to their dorm room port or the campus wireless network (for Internet, College I-net and E-mail service) must install Trend Antivirus and the CleanAccess client that are provided by the College.

Students needing assistance installing Trend or the CleanAccess client should make an appointment with Computer Center staff, which will assist them with the install but will not perform any other maintenance or service on student computers.

Students are not allowed to send (blanket or mass e-mails) to all students, faculty, or staff by selecting large groups of e-mail addresses from the address book.

If you have an announcement that you feel should go to these groups, please contact webmaster@cofo.edu.

The student's personal computer must have the following minimum specifications in order to successfully operate on the College network:

NOTE: NO MAINTENANCE, SERVICE OR OPERATIONS OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERFORMED BY COMPUTER CENTER STAFF ON ANY STUDENT'S PERSONAL COMPUTER. IN ADDITION, THE COLLEGE ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATEVER FOR DAMAGE TO STUDENT COMPUTERS BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE COLLEGE INTERNET SYSTEM.

Monitoring and filtering for web content will be in place. Bandwidth restrictions will also be in place. All media and audio connections (such as Windows Media Player/RealPlayer) will have restricted bandwidth, to prevent the monopolization of campus network bandwidth. “Peer to peer” applications that allow users to participate in a file sharing “community” and allow users to search the network for files that may interest them, and to bring those files to their own computers will be disallowed. The traffic such sharing generates is a problem for the College and violates this policy. Additionally, downloading from a file sharing “community” puts users at risk personally if they are found to possess copyrighted materials they have not obtained legally. The College will not protect individuals who distribute copyrighted material without an appropriate license. Federal law requires that the College take action when notified that someone on its network is distributing copyrighted materials. Examples of file sharing applications include but are not limited to Kazaa, Morpheus, Napster, Gnutella, Audio Galaxy, Aimster, and WinMX.

The student's computer is the only device that may be attached to the campus network. Any other devices, such as wireless access points, wireless routers or systems that do not meet the minimum specifications listed above are not approved and should not be connected to the campus network.  The use of a network connection provided by the College (wired or wireless) for server applications such as web servers, chat servers and networked games that impact the operation or performance of the network will result in disabling of the network port.

Any abuse of Internet privileges may result in disciplinary action.

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