Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: chinet!henry@att.att.com Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Macintosh Virus Message-ID: <0010.8909211142.AA16502@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 21 Sep 89 05:23:45 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 37 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu In article <0001.8909191859.AA09184@ge.sei.cmu.edu> JOHN P. BRADLEY writes: > Well it was bound to happen - why should we be any different? We >believe we have discovered a virus in our microcomputer lab. >education of the users, hoping that this won't get out of hand. ...[stuff deleted]... > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. John - The first thing I recommend is to pick up Disinfectant 1.2 by John Norstad of Northwestern University. It is available from a number of places such as BBSs and Mac Users' Groups as well as FTP. Read the documentation that comes with it, especially his recommendations. He explains the policy they use at Northwestern to combat viruses. This will allow you to find and remove existing viruses. Note that you should replace infected files with known clean copies whenever possible, rather than disinfecting. Use this on a regular basis! To help prevent future infections, get a Virus prevention INIT such as Vaccine, or GateKeeper. Prevention INITs also come with commercial packages as well. Put a copy on every Startup disk you can find. Note this will not help in cases where users bring in their own startup disks (like myself). It will definitely help to educate your users. Might I recommend (here comes the commercial :-) my HyperCard stack Virus Encyclopedia. It is available from the same places as Disinfectant (I'm not sure about FTP, I'm working on that) and also BudgetBytes and Educorp. I wish you success in fighting viruses. Henry C. Schmitt Author of Virus Encyclopedia H3nry C. Schmitt | CompuServe: 72275,1456 (Rarely) | GEnie: H.Schmitt (Occasionally) Royal Inn of Yoruba | UUCP: Henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Best Bet)