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Subject: Unix viruses... (UNIX)
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srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) writes:

> 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

Both types of requests, requests for Unix utilities which search
MS-DOS files for viruses, and requests for utilties/information
related to Unix viruses, appeared in recent issues of this list.

In an older digest (VIRUS-L Digest [Volume 3 Issue 192])
Jim Wright <jwright@cfht.cfht.hawaii.edu> writes:

> Subject: unix anti-viral sites
>
> # Anti-viral and security archive sites for Unix
> # Listing last changed 05 June 1990
>
> cs.hw.ac.uk
>         Dave Ferbrache <davidf@cs.hw.ac.uk>
>         NIFTP from JANET sites, login as "guest".
>         Electronic mail to <info-server@cs.hw.ac.uk>.
>         Main access is through mail server.
>         The master index for the virus archives can be retrieved as
>                 request: virus
>                 topic: index
>         For further details send a message with the text
>                 help
>         The administrative address is <infoadm@cs.hw.ac.uk>
>
> funic.funet.fi
>         Jyrki Kuoppala <jkp@cs.hut.fi>
>         Accessible through anonymous ftp, IP number 128.214.6.100.
>         Directory pub/unix/security contains programs to help in
>         security, pub/doc/security contains various documents about
>         security in general and unix security (like the worm
>         documents)
>
> wuarchive.wustl.edu
>         Chris Myers <chris@wugate.wustl.edu>
>         Accessible through anonymous ftp, IP number 128.252.135.4.
>         A number of directories can be found in ~ftp/usenet/comp.virus/*.

Hope this re-posting is helpful.

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