Two viruses crippled the campus network from Tuesday until last weekend, striking from a computer brought to campus earlier in the week, while a separate third virus still threatens email accounts.

According to an email sent by Chat Chatterji, vice president for Information Technology Services, on Sunday afternoon, the following buildings had partial Internet access: Buzzard Hall; Physical Plant ; Health Services; Klehm Hall; Coleman Hall; Life Sciences Building; and athletic facilities.

Old Main, Blair and Ninth Street halls and a number of academic buildings had full network capabilities by Saturday.

The inability to connect to the Internet and the campus network were wide ranging. Freshmen in their first weekend at Eastern could not email family and friends. Students could not access class schedules or register for a last-second class. Professors could not look at class rosters or a syllabus, and administrators had to schedule and cancel meetings on note pads.

The same adverse effects were experienced outside Charleston. The viruses also crashed several U.S. Navy and Army networks, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and around 120 schools near Memphis, Tenn., Chatterji said.

At Eastern, faxes were sent out on Wednesday identifying the problem. The original prognosis assured the network malfunction was not in conjunction with the worms.

“All of this couldn’t have come at a worse time…” according to the fax.

Updates on Thursday and Friday confirmed that indeed viruses were the cause, and that a technician from IBM was on the way.

By Sunday morning, the IBM worker had updated the university switches with anti-virus protection.

The two viruses had programmed computers to send large packets of information to the outside world. The influx of transmission created a “broadcast storm” that confused the network.