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Free Software - Available to Wayne State Students, Faculty, and Staff

IMPORTANT INSTALLATION INFORMATION

Symantec Antivirus Software

Symantec AntiVirus software is available for free to Wayne State University students, faculty, and staff. Campus workstations and servers are protected, as well, under this software contract.

Symantec AntiVirus software has up-to-the-minute protection with virus definition update capability. For more information about Symantec AntiVirus, visit the Symantec Website at www.symantec.com.

Symantec Downloads

Windows

Version 10.2 for Windows Vista (32 bit) only -
Note: For 64 bit please call the Software Clearinghouse (313) 577-4060

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Uninstall any antivirus software currently on your computer.
  2. Download Symantec AntiVirus for Windows 10.2 (30.6 MB)
  3. During installation, if you receive a message "an unidentified program wants access to your computer", click "Allow".
  4. Near the end of the installation you may receive several status messages. Allow the install process to continue. When LiveUpdate appears click "Next" to run LiveUpdate.
  5. After the installation process is complete, schedule routine antivirus updates with LiveUpdate.
  6. During the Symantec installation process the default is to disable Microsoft Defender. After the installation process, we highly recommend that you enable Microsoft Defender via the Control Panel.

Version 10.1.6 for Windows 2000 / XP (32 bit) only -
Note: For 64 bit please call the Software Clearinghouse (313) 577-4060

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Uninstall any antivirus software currently on your computer.
  2. Download Symantec AntiVirus for Windows 10.1.6 (29.6 MB)
  3. Schedule routine antivirus updates with LiveUpdate.

Windows 2000/2003 server or Netware — Contact Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) Departmental Computing Services (DCS)

Previous versions of Symantec AntiVirus are available for older operating systems.

Macintosh

Version 10.0 for Mac OS X 10.3 or later —

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Uninstall any antivirus software currently on your computer.
  2. Download Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0 (26.1 MB)
  3. Schedule routine antivirus updates with LiveUpdate.

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Thomson ResearchSoft Software

Wayne State University currently licenses two Thomson ResearchSoft products:

EndNote, is an easy-to-use software program designed to search online bibliographic databases, organize references and create bibliographies. EndNote can format bibliographic entries in almost every citation style and work with most word processors. Learn more...

Reference Manager, finds references, keeps track of them, and builds a bibliography

For more information about Thomson ResearchSoft software, visit their Website at thomsonresearchsoft.com

EndNote Downloads

Note: Older versions of EndNote and Reference Manager are provided as a courtesy. The C&IT Help Desk does not provide support for them.

Endnote Web is now available via ISI Web of Knowledge. Learn more about Endnote Web!

EndNote for Windows

For Windows 2000 SP3, XP (SP2), and Vista operating systems

EndNote X1 (73.8 MB)

For all other Windows operating systems - EndNote 7 (24 MB)

EndNote for Macintosh

For Mac OS X - EndNote X1 (46.5 MB)

For Mac OS 9.x - EndNote 5.0.2 (14.5 MB)

WSU Connect Files (249 KB)

Reference Manager for Windows (not available for Macintosh)

Reference Manager 11 (44.3 MB)

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Respondus LockDown Browser

Respondus LockDown Browser provides a custom browser interface for Internet Explorer (Windows) or Safari (Macintosh) software that is already installed on a computer, to secure the testing environment within Blackboard.

For more information regarding Respondus LockDown Browser Respondus FAQs.

For Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, and Vista operating systems, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
For Macintosh OS X 10.3.9 or newer, Safari

LockDown Browser Download (6 MB)

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Fetch File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Software

Fetch is an easy-to-use, file transfer client for the Apple Macintosh. Fetch supports FTP and SFTP, the two most popular file transfer protocols on the Internet.

Fetch Download

Fetch is free to download for Wayne State students and employees.

Macintosh Download version 5.2 (58.5 MB)

 

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Last modified on 4/1/08