McDaniel College provides computing resources to support the academic research and instructional activities of the institution. The resources are intended for the sole use of College faculty, staff, students and other authorized users. Use of the College's information technology resources is a privilege. The following types of activities are examples of behaviors that are unethical and unacceptable, and in some cases may violate state or federal law and/or the McDaniel College Student Honor Code.

1. Attempting to alter system, hardware, software or account configurations.
2. Accessing or monitoring another individual's accounts, files, software, electronic mail, or computer resources without the permission of the owner.
3. Misrepresenting your identity, role or the identity of any other person in any type of electronic communication.
4. Misusing the College's computing resources so as to reduce their efficiency or to affect access to the detriment of other users.
5. Breaching or attempting to breach computer security systems, whether with or without malicious intent.
6. Engaging in any activity that might be harmful to systems or to any stored information such as creating or propagating viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, or other rogue programs, disrupting services, or damaging files.
7. Violating copyright and/or software license agreements.
8. Using computing resources to threaten or harass others or transmitting obscene or fraudulent messages.
9. Using computing resources for commercial or profit-making purposes.
10. Installing or operating computer games on College owned computers for purposes other than academic instruction.
11. Downloading or posting to College computers without authorization.

Policies and regulations of the college, including the Student Honor Code, and state and federal law, are applicable to computing resources.

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Addendum to Responsible Use Policy for Residence Hall Ethernet Connections

•  A student with a network hookup in his/her residence hall room is responsible for the use of that connection by anyone granted access by the student.

•  Network activity is monitored by Information Technology for security violations, misuse, load balancing and resource usage.

•  Students are responsible for the security of their own machines. Any student enabling network services allowing others network access to a machine does so at his/her own risk. Protection from virus and Trojan horse programs are the student's responsibility.

•  Periodic network scans for Trojan horse programs and unauthorized servers are done by Information Technology. If one is found on your computer you will be notified and will be required to disable it.

•  Reports of unauthorized use by your machine from off campus sites will be investigated by Information Technology and may result in the disconnection of your computer from the network.

•  Violations of these policies or software/hardware malfunctions causing detriment to the network will result in the disconnection of your computer from the network.

•  TCP/IP is the only protocol required on the network. Use of other protocols will not be supported.