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Saving and Protecting Your Data at UNT

Backing Up, Storing, and Safely Transporting Your Data

Flash Drives - Students can use USB flash drives (thumb drives) to store and transport their data between their home workspace and the general access computer labs. The computer labs have easily-accessible USB ports for this purpose on the front of their machines.
CD-ROM and DVD-ROM - Data can be backed and stored on cd and dvd. The computer labs have cd and dvd burners on their Macintosh and Windows machines.
SkyDrive is a web-based file storage system with 5+ gigabytes of storage space! Go to the SkyDrive FAQ page for more information and to get started.

Virus Protection and Other Security Issues

The most current information about security issues is easily accessible at http://security.unt.edu
McAfee VirusScan 8.7i is now available for FREE to all UNT students, faculty, and staff by downloading it from http://security.unt.edu/resources/antivirus or you can purchase a CD from the software bookstore in the student union for only $3.00.
Set your update application (ex. Windows Update) and virus protection to automatically install patches and updates as they are released.
Complete tutorials on installing and configuring patching and virus scanning software are available at http://security.unt.edu/resources/antivirus or you can contact the UNT Helpdesk (http://helpdesk.unt.edu/) for assistance in securing your machine and data.

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Address your questions about this page to:

Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner
Director - Academic Computing Technical Services
UNT UIT - Academic Computing and User Services
Sage Hall 338C
940-565-4808
ehinkle@unt.edu

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Last updated on June 12, 2012

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