Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: *NIX virus... necessary knowledge. (UNIX) Message-ID: <0005.9012141904.AA27940@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 03:09:04 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 24 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu S72UZAW@TOE.TOWSON.EDU (Jan C. Zawadzki) writes: >Greetings... > For the last couple of weeks I saw a number of inquiries about UNIX >oriented anti-virus utilities. A couple of comments: I think the author misses the drift of those requests. I think they were asking for software which runs in Unix and checks MSDOS diskettes. Cross products such as these are quite common for other applications. For example, in Xenix/386 I can manipulate MSDOS diskettes..read, write, delete, format while under Xenix. I also can process arc files (and soon--zip files) while under Xenix. I can even develop MSDOS executables under Xenix. With a virtual machine like Vp/Ix I can even run MSDOS under Xenix. If virus detectors and removers for MSDOS viruses were available for Xenix, I would use them rather than native tools on MSDOS. I don't have to worry about becoming infected by accident when processing MSDOS diskettes under Xenix, even though the MSDOS diskette is infected. Xenix and other Unix systems are gaining in popularity on '386 and '486 mainframes. - -- | Ronald J. Srodawa | Internet: srodawa@unix.secs.oakland.edu | | School of Engineering and CS | UUCP: srodawa@egrunix.UUCP | | Oakland University | Voice: (313) 370-2247 | | Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401 | |