Termination of Anti-Virus Software provided under the Software Comprehensive Agreement between Tokyo Tech and Symantec

To: All Faculty and Staff Members

                                            February 17, 2020

                           From : ICT Support Division,
                                  Global Scientific Information and Computing Center


Termination of Anti-Virus Software provided under the Software 
Comprehensive Agreement between Tokyo Tech and Symantec

Anti-virus software provided under the Software Comprehensive Agreement 
between Tokyo Tech and Symantec Corp. (Currently, Symantec Endpoint Protection
 (hereafter, SEP) is provided(*1).) is no longer available 
	after 1st April, 2020.

Currently, a next Anti-Virus Software Agreementis under selection process. 
Its information will be provided at 
	the web page, 
	whose URL is http://www.officesoft.gsic.titech.ac.jp/index.shtml
ASAP, when the new anti-virus software is decided (after the end of 
February, 2020).  

Important Note: 
   1) DO NOT continue to use SEP after 1st April, 2020.   
      Please UNINSTALL it.
   2) Please inform the announcement at the above web page to the students
      /members of your laboratory. 
   3) The condition is same for the servers operating on university-owned 
      computers which use the above mentioned SEP.   The GSIC will collect 
      information of these servers.  Please refer the the followings
      (in Japanese only).   I appreciate your cooperation.
      For the server maintained and managed by the external contractor(s),
      please make a contact the contractor(s), and check whether the 
      contractor(s) can handle the above condition, ASAP.