京都大学東南アジア地域研究研究所　情報処理室 > Announcements > Critical Information

Easy Countermeasure to computer virus for the external media like USB memory / HDD

Dear all. As Information processing office has already announced at many times, there are many computer viruses around our activities. At least, Computer virus has been detected once two days. Please check again whether “Autorun.inf” folder is in the top of your internal and external media or not. If there is not it, please create “Autorun.inf” folder. About the detail information, please see “”. * The main aim is not to prevent the infection. By this countermeasure, even if the external media is infected with computer virus, the automatic infection will be prevented when you insert it to the PC. 12th September, 2011: Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.

(Critical issue) Correspondence for Illegal SSL Certificates

Users. Information Processing Office already informed about this issue at . However, I think that the influence area is very large scale, so in case of famous web browsers and e-mail softwares, I summarized below about the measure. There are two approaches three steps for solving this issue. [Step 1]: OS WindowsXP Access to Microsoft Update, and select “Custom” button. Click “Software, Optional” in the left side menu. And Select  “Update of Root Certificates” and Install it in “Review and install updates”.* If there is not “Update of Root Certificates”, Internet Explorer uses latest version of Root Certificates. Windows Vista/7の場合 Access to Microsoft Update. If “Check for Updates” button is displayed, please click...Read More

(Critical issue) Firefox 6.0.2 and Thunderbird 6.0.2 Released

This version was released on September 6th, 2011. This is very critical issue. Removed trust exceptions for certificates issue by Staat der Nederlanden In March  incident case,  the illegal public SSL certificates by hacker are created is influencing to many famous information services, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Skype, and so on. In this time, according to some news, it seems many SSL certificates were abused.  Therefore, the influence area may widely expand.  About the detail information, please see CNET news.  If you use old browser like IE6 / 7 in WindowsXP, you had better consider to upgrade new version (IE8). Then, if you use WindowsXP, please update to the latest...Read More

Expanding the capacity of CSEAS E-mail box

Users. I’m sorry that the notice is delated. Since July 2011, CSEAS e-mail box had been expanded (7GB –> 25GB). Now, you can store an e-mail message until 25GB in your mailbox. Then, the capacity for sending and receiving one e-mail message is 25MB. Of course,  in case of sending, you need to consider the capacity of destination server. 9th September, 2011 Chief of Information Processing Office.  

Demise of some Google services like Google Desktop

Users. This decision was published in Official Google Blog on September 2, 2011. By  the decision, I think that Google Desktop user will be influenced most among their uses. Google Desktop will be revoked on September 14, 2011. Since September 14, you won’t be able to download Google Desktop or to get any supports. Therefore, the time when users have to consider about the service instead of Google Desktop  if  users want to continue to use the function will come in near future. In case of focusing on the desktop search function in an OS, Windows has “Windows Desktop Search” (From Vista) and MacOSX has “Spotlight” (from MacOS 10.4). Of...Read More

Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 Released

Users The fixed version of Adobe Flash Player was released because of corresponding to the issue related to the animation (Not  the critical security vulnerabilities). About the detail information, please see .Recently, the release interval of some web browser like Google Chrome and Firefox has become very short. Therefore, I feel that the release interval of Adobe Flash Player has been being hastened  more and more.At any rate, Adobe Flash Player has been frequently updating, so I  strongly recommend to access to the following version check site. If you use not only Internet Explorer but also other web browsers, please check  2 browsers of Internet Explorer and one of other web...Read More

(Attention) Cannot get new Adobe Flash Player to upgrade

If your PC cannot download new Adobe Flash Player in the Installer  more than 5 minutes, the upgrade may be failure. The above picture is Japanese, so I’d like to explain Japanese messages. Adobe Flash Player インストーラー means Adobe Flash Player Installer.  インストールを取得しています means  “Being Getting Installer“. If above installer message continues more than 5 minutes, you need to get the standalone installer. Please try the following operation. Stop Adobe Flash Player Installer. Please access to the HP of  Flash Player Help and Support. Then, click “Windows troubleshooting” , (If you use MacOSX, please click “Mac troubleshooting and uninstall”. Please see “5. Download and install Adobe Flash Player (Internet Explorer)” and “5....Read More

(Attention) Suspension of ECS-ID for the educational account.

Users. * If you have SPS-ID, please use it instead of ECS-ID*. SPS-ID has been published for all staffs, so ECS-ID is published for non-staff users, like students and visiting researchers. ECS-ID users have to do the update procedure every year at the media center of Kyoto University. The media center has been suspending ECS-ID at  July every year. If you don’t do it, your ECS-ID was suspended, so you cannot use the common services of Kyoto University, like wireless network, online journal in Library, and so on. If you cannot use ECS-ID, please use the following inquiry page. About the detail information of Library Online Journal, please see the...Read More

(Fixed) Trouble of Gmail Login Error with IE9 and Microsoft Security Essentials

Users Now, the above trouble seems to be already fixed. According to the information in some web sites, it was solved by Virus Definition File of Microsoft Security Essentials on August 11, 2011. As a result of checking at Vista + IE8 environment, the issue did not occur.. 12th August, 2011 Chief of Information Processing Office: Kitani.  

Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.5 Released

Users The fixed version of Adobe Flash Player was released because of corresponding to the critical security vulnerabilities, issue of IE9, and issue of MacOSX Lion. Adobe Flash Player has been frequently updating, so I  strongly recommend to access to the following version check site. If you use not only Internet Explorer but also other web browsers, please check  2 browsers of Internet Explorer and one of other web browsers. * If you don’t know Adobe Flash Player, you can use it without thinking when you access to a web site. Adobe Flash Player is the plugin software  for playing the Flash contents, such as the menu, animation, video in...Read More