Malware-which is the broad category for any malicious software designed to do things such as damage or steal files, spy on a user by recording photos, videos, or keystrokes, or usurp a user's identity-is rampant on both Windows and Macs. If you do not have a departmental IT administrator and are the administrator of your own Columbia-owned computer, please contact CUIT Cybersecurity at.

If your computer is managed by a departmental IT group outside of CUIT, please ask your departmental IT administrator(s) to complete a Malwarebytes Site request form for your specific affiliation at Columbia.For Macs: You have the Self Service center in your applications folder.For Windows: You have the CUIT Software Center icon on your desktop.The easiest way to check if you have a CUIT-managed computer is to look on your computer and see if you have the CUIT software download center installed: Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) will be removed. If your computer is managed by CUIT, Malwarebytes will be deployed to your system automatically in August 2020.

To address remote work requirements, CUIT has made Malwarebytes available to employees' personal machines for the current year (2020).

You are allotted one (1) free license for Malwarebytes anti-malware software.

If you are looking to install Malwarebytes for your personal device, please visit CUIT’s secure software download portal to download Malwarebytes.

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