Symantec

Purchase College maintains a License Agreement with Symantec which entitles the institution to use Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition across the campus on institutionally owned computers. In addition to this, students and faculty/staff of the College are also covered under this agreement (see Student and faculty/staff Usage below for more details). Virus protection is very important today and Symantec Antivirus must be installed on all intuitionally owned computers across campus. Faculty and staff needing Symantec Antivirus installed on the college computer should contact the CIS Helpdesk at (914) 251-6465 or helpdesk@purchase.edu.

The latest computer virus information can be found at our Virus Information webpage or at the Symantec Security Response website.

Symantec AntiVirus for Students and Faculty/Staff

Students currently enrolled and faculty/staff currently employed with the College are eligible to use same Symantec AntiVirus that the College uses on its computers free of charge. The cost of the software is already included in the College’s License Agreement with Symantec and both students and faculty/staff are encouraged to download, install, and run Symantec Antivirus on their personally owned computer to help keep them protected.

Download and Installation

Note: Symantec AntiVirus is available for Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh OS. If you already have another virus protection product installed on your computer including a previous version of Symantec or Norton AntiVirus, please uninstall that sofware before installing this version of Symantec or Norton AntiVirus.

You must read Symantec's Legal Notices and the license agreement for Symantec AntiVirus before downloading the software.

You are agreeing to the terms of the agreements by downloading, installing, and running the software. You are confirming your status as a currently registered student and employee of the College. If your status as a student or employee of the College changes, you will immediately uninstall and destroy any copies of the software you have and not retain any portion of it for any purpose.

Note: You will be promted for your Purchase College computer account username and password when you download the file: john.doe@purchase.edu

Please visit the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition for Windows or the Symantec Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh website or contact the CIS Helpdesk for more information.