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Sorry, this entry is only available in Finnish.

The protection mechanisms have not changed for a long time but it is good to go over them once in a while: Among malware, so-called ransomware has now become common. Ransomware is a program type that encrypts the user’s work files on the user’s local machine and sometimes also on the network disks available on the user’s computer. Decrypting the files might succeed if […]

You can add a printer to a computer, which is maintained by the ICT services and the computer is in the university network or the Oamk kk network (either by cable or WiFi) Choose Start (Käynnistä) Start writing  Devices and printers (Laitteet ja tulostimet) until you can choose it from the search results; open it […]

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In Windows,  the default media player is Windows Media Player. However, we recommend you change the default to VLC media player; it is a free, open source multimedia player that plays most multimedia files. In order to do this, you need to install VLC on your computer <https://www.videolan.org/vlc/>. This is how you can then change the default […]

When you print files to the printing queue via email,  you cannot help the fact that the colour files will be printed in colour. In case you want to print more affordable black and white prints, you have two options: When you are fetching your print from the Canon printer, use the printers menu options […]

NB. only non-commercial use is allowed. Check out Autodesk University, they offer online courses for free. 1. Go to https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/featured 2. To register, choose a product and then create an account (or if you already have one, sign in). Start creating the account by filling out the form with Finland as your country, student as your role and […]

Link Search field Search (look at picture): by name by code by theme, e.g. CAD (word which is included in study description) Search criteria Filtering: You can choose one or more filter at the same time. You can remove a chosen filter by using buttons in ”Selected filters” (look at picture) or using ”Remove filters” […]

In past years, the various malware and viruses have not been very big disturbance to contaminated IT devices. These malicious programs have mainly showed pop-up messages/advertises in the web browser, or have changed the search engine of the browser to another. Disadvantage has been pretty trivial. Nowadays it is very common that malware infected machine […]