Faculty Development Program

Today, I conducted a Faculty Development Program to my fellow Grade School Teachers in SACS. I discussed with them on how to be more efficient and effective in the process of Grade Making and on how to handle Computer Viruses.

Here is the Outline of my Topics:
1. Grade Making Tips and Suggestions
2. Some Helpful Tips in Dealing with Computer Viruses

I started the Talk with my personal adage that goes:
"There is no such thing as Best Antivirus Software, other than the person who personally use the computer "

According to Wikipedia:
A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another.

From my own point of view:
Routine scanning of computer virus is useless unless the Antivirus program is updated.

Here are some tips that I shared to them.
Tips on how to deal with Computer Virus / Suspicious Folder/Files
1. Do not open the flash disk (usb) directly when it'll prompt you to open it.
Open it in "My Computer".
Right Click on USB drive and choose "Open in a New Window"
-An autorun.inf virus program will trigger the virus to open.
-That command itself is telling the virus program already to execute before you knew it.
-Most of the virus program will occupy the memory of your computer making your computer moves too slow. Remember that the speed of the computer is highly dependent mainly from the memory of it.

2. View the Folders/File using the "Detail View". This will help you know if that folder/file is a normal folder/file or not.
Question: How do you know if it's Normal or Not Normal.
-First you can do this by using the "Detail View"
-Second you can identify if that file is a normal file or not by looking at the "Type" Tab location right next to the filename / folder.

Normally Computer Virus will hide the real folder and create a STRANGE shortcut folder in your window as if it looks like real/genuine folder. Please don't trust this, make sure to check that folder icon in "Detail View"

3. How to unhide the real folders?
-If you are using Windows 7, Click on Organize > Folder and Search to open the "Folder Options" window.
-Go back to explorer window, and delete the "shortcut folder" and unhide the genuine folders.

How to stop computer virus processes?
-Since a computer virus is also a program, you can stop the process by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete. This will show up  the task manager window. Select the strange process and click end process.

All Else: 
Unhide Folder using the Command Prompt
Click on Start Menu
On the Search Bar type "cmd" and hit enter. This will show up the black screen window with the white text on it. Execute the command below to unhide the folders.
G:\ attrib -h -r -s /s /d *.*

Thank You!