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From: jk@Apple.COM (John Kullmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Mac OS Viruses under A/UX 2.0
Message-ID: <41464@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 22:39:59 GMT
References: <402@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
Distribution: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <402@creatures.cs.vt.edu> davism@vtopus.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis) writes:
>In the fall, we plan to put A/UX 2.0 on ten lab machines and we'd like to
>allow users to run the Mac environment if they like.  Has anyone experimented
>with viruses under 2.0?  I'm hoping that if we set the machines up correctly
>A/UX will be able to prevent a virus from infecting them, but I don't have
>copies of any viruses to try.

We use the Symantec virus checkers, they work under A/UX 2.0.

-- 
John Kullmann
jk@apple.com