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From: 6600sirt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mike O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: A virus on a novell LAN.
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Date: 25 Jan 91 07:06:28 GMT
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From article <1991Jan23.225630.1139@anomaly.SBS.COM>, by mpd@anomaly.SBS.COM (Michael P. Deignan):
> david@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (David Masters) writes:
> 
>>Is there a virus detector to run on a novel server, can a virus get from a 
>>workstation to the server. Please email me for any suggestions.
> 
> Yes, a virus running on a workstation can infect the file server. If they
> couldn't, there wouldn't be any need for NETSCAN.
>

Let me clarify this a little.  If you are asking whether or not a
virus on a workstation could infect the program running on your file
server (ie Novell Netware), the answer is: not bloody likely.  And if
it did, NETSCAN and others wouldn't find it.

On the other hand, if you are asking whether a virus on a workstation
could infect EXE and COM files stored on the network hard drive, which
could then be run by other workstations, the answer is of course yes.
The main advantage of NETSCAN is that you can stop a virus that
infects one of your workstations from spreading to the entire net.

You can get a copy of NETSCAN and other virus fighting programs from
anonymous FTP to uwasa.fi.  However, you may not use NETSCAN in a
business environment without registering it with MacAffee Associates.
The cost for a network starts at about $1000; not much when you
consider what it could save you.

(I am not affiliated with MacAffee in any way.)

Mike O'Brien
6600sirt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu