Computing and Information Technology Center
Student Computing Services
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.
- UNT Student Storage - Accessed at untss.unt.edu
- Web-accessible Storage -- An “online flash drive”
- Login to UNTSS using your EUID and password
- Your files are uploaded and downloaded via a web interface
- Each student has 100MB of storage space available
- UNT strongly discourages students from using floppy disks for storage of data.
Virus Protection and Other Security Issues
- The most current information about security issues is easily accessible at http://security.unt.edu
- McAfee VirusScan 8.5i 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.
Next stop on the tour
Address your questions about this page to:
Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner
Student Computing Services Manager
UNT Computing Center — ISB 129
940-565-4808
ehinkle@unt.edu