Acquaintance Party

To all students, we will have a Course Meeting on July 13, 2009, Monday at exactly 2:30 PM until 4:00 PM. This is regarding on the different contest and importants things about our upcoming Acquaintance Party. Rooms are assigned on different courses. Just see postings on the assigned rooms. Attendance is a must.

Kananga NHS, NOCNHS stud champs in STI chess tourney

The Winners. Chess champs together with Brgy. Capt. Xerxes Solon, City Councilor Claudio Larrazabal and STI Ormoc School Administrator Mrs. Maricel Reyes-Ngo.

STI National Scholarships Exam

STI BRINGS opportunities to deserving students by administering a National Scholarship Exam for the entire month of Febuary. This is an annual scholarship exam open to all graduating high school students with NO examination fees. Last February 2009, there were 142 students who took the scholarship exam at STI College-Ormoc from different municipalities of Leyte and outside Leyte Province. From the total examinees, there were 54 who qualified to avail of scholarship discounts (100%, 50%, 25%, & 10%). The exam was develop by STI head office amd administered by STI network colleges.

STI - Ormoc sponsored chess tournament culminates

 The Chess Tournament organized and spearheaded by STI College-Ormoc last February 21, 2009 ended in a successful awarding ceremony on March 22, 2009 at the STI campus. Cash prizes, trophies, medals, certificates and scholarship grants were given to the winners. The Kananga NHS bagged the championship award in the group category and was awarded with trophy, certificate and cash prize of P2,500.00. 2nd placer  is the New Ormoc City NHS and the 3rd place went to Damulaan NHS. In the individual category, Chrys Suico from New Ormoc City NHS was the 1st placer and recieved from STI a one-year scholarship grant for any course he wishes to enroll and a gold medal. 2nd placer is Elmer Nazario from Dolores NHS, 3rd is Rommel Corrales of Seguinon  NHS and 4rth is Ruben Ensoy from Kananga NHS. They recieved cash prizes and gold medals. City councilor Claudio “Dudy”  Larrazabal was the guest speaker during the awarding ceremony. STI College-Ormoc is grateful to all the high school students and coaches who participated in this activity and to the principals of the participating high schools for allowing their students to develop their talents in their chosen interest. DepEd has a new program to introduce the game of chess into the curriculum as it reportedly increases the analytical skills of a student. 

Prevent Viruses from Infecting the USB Flash Drive or Pen Drive

The USB flash drive or pen drive are very useful portable storage devices which are very commonly used for transferring or transporting personal data or work files from one station to another, e.g. from the house to the office or for carrying around data that users intend to transfer or access in a variety of places. The USB flash drive is compact and easy to carry around. However, as the storage device is so common and easily used, the percentage of the drive being infected by viruses has also increased substantially. In this situation, what can a user do in order to prevent or reduce the risk of being infected by viruses while transporting data via the portable USB drive?

To minimize the risk of the PC being infected by viruses, it is a good practice to keep a habit to carry out the following measures once you insert or connect your portable Pen Drive into your computer. When you insert your USB Drive or Pen Drive into your PC, click cancel to close the dialogue box prompted out.

Now you need to go to Start\Run and type cmd to run the Command Prompt Window as shown below.

In the Command Window, type in your flash drive’s drive letter (if your pen drive is detected as G, then type G: and so on). Once you have gone in to your pen drive, now type dir/w/o/a/p and hit Enter. You will then see a list of files. Search whether any of these files appear or exist:
1. Autorun.inf
2. New Folder.exe
3. Bha.vbs
4. Iexplore.vbs
5. Info.exe
6. New_Folder.exe
7. Ravmon.exe
8. RVHost.exe or any other files with “.exe” extension.

For instance, two files are found in the following example: a.dll.vbs and Autorun.inf.

If you happen to see any of the above files, just type and run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* as shown in the photo below:

Once this has been done, you need to delete the files that you see. In the example above, you need to delete the a.dll.vbs and Autorun.inf. Just type in “del autorun.inf” and “del a.dll.vbs”.

It’s almost done. To double ensure your pen drive is safe, perhaps you might need to scan your USB flash drive again with some reputable antivirus software. You can eject your pen drive and reinsert for using.