Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!trwind!venice!bien From: bien@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Frank E. Bien) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Re;"Curse-virus" orig.article Message-ID: <891@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Date: 6 Nov 90 19:25:45 GMT References: <90305.084851LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi> <1990Nov3.022808.6903@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <1990Nov3.162807.3019@csvax.cs.ukans.edu> <4813@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <70038@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: bien@venice.sedd.trw.com (Frank E. Bien) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 21 In article <70038@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes: >*> I, too, have noticed that lack of actual proven viruses that have >*>appeared around here on PC's. On the other hand, Macs do have a *big* >*>problem with them. I don't know how many times I've scanned a disk on >*>one of our systems here, and found that the disk needed to be "sanitized." >*>Apparently, it is because of how the mac shares information or some such. >*>(Never did like the buggers anyway... :^) There are over 300 variants to the 65 main MSDOS viruses documented. There are only 30 variants to 10 main MAC viruses known. While it is true that the MAC viruses seem to spread faster, I wouldn't forget about the MSDOS threat. It seems the MAC viruses are usually harmless. . . The MSDOS variants are far more destructive in nature. I would prefer to have neither. Frank Bien TRW Computer Security Services bien@venice.sedd.trw.com