Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: plains!umn-cs!LOCAL!aslakson@uunet.UU.NET (Brian Aslakson) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: 4096 Running Rampant At Wharton! (PC) Message-ID: <0010.9008031127.AA06769@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 2 Aug 90 21:59:37 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 39 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu GREVE@wharton.upenn.edu (Michael Greve) writes: > We thought we had rid ourselves of the 4096 virus. Since I last wrote > to this list the 4096 virus has re-infected the orginal 5 machines in > our lab plus 4 more. We seem to be losing the battle of 4096. What > I feel is wrong is that we probably have some students with infected > com and exe files on their floppies (programs, games etc.). They are > using their programs and re-infecting our machines (unknowingly). We > are currently using Diskmanager as our hard disk protection software. > Diskmanager isn't protecting the machine against 4096. Is there a > program, either shareware or by purchase, that will work with Diskmanager > and protect the machine from 4096? At this point we don't have the DiskManager, by Ontrack Software (800)752-1333, is not anti-viral software, has never claimed to be (I'll betcha) anti-viral, and if you told them -- wait --, I'll tell them. I didn't have to finish asking my question about anti-viral when the man said "No." It isn't anti-viral, never claimed to be anti-viral, it partions Harddisks. That's what it does. Okay? "No. No. No." Anyway, get either scan or fprot (or both), also get some memory resident program like scanres or vshield. Fprot may have something like this in it (with it). READ the documentation. Try anonymous ftp at mibsrv.mib.eng.ua.edu goto pub/ibm-antivirus and mget til you're blue in the face. There is some excellent stuff there. scanv64.zip fprot111.zip vshld64.zip and so on.... Try to download to a clean machine, read everything, then go for it. Scanres you'll have to get from McAfee's BBS directly, if you want it. The number's in the documentation for scan. Fprot I'm checking out tonite. Good luck. Brian Aslakson - -- Macintosh related: mac-admin@cs.umn.edu All else: aslakson@cs.umn.edu