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From: seanhull@acsu.buffalo.edu (Sean P. Hull)
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Subject: MacSE, keeping out viruses
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Date: 9 Feb 91 22:56:43 GMT
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Hello-
     I have a MAC SE, with 20Meg harddrive.  It is running SAM
intercept, which catches some kinds of viruses, but not all.  Recently
the harddrive became infected again, by some unknown user.  This mac
has a fairly small user population, but viruses still keep creeping
up.  
     Most of the use for the harddrive is for the applications which
are already on it, that is rarely would anyone need to write to the
harddrive.  
     What I would like to do it make writing to the harddrive require
a password.  Since most everything a user could need is on the
harddrive already, I don't THINK this should be a problem.  If the
user wants to edit one of THEIR files in say MACWRITE, it would read
from THEIR disk, and write to THEIR disk, without writing to the
harddrive (hopefully).  Now, I realise there IS a clipboard, but as
far as I can tell, this is resident in memory, and does not REALLY
have to be SAVED to the harddrive periodically.   Perhaps I am wrong
on this point.  (Theoretically it could be implemented this way)

     Is the above possible?  If it is, how is it done?  What are the
sideaffects, if any to this solution?  Are there other solutions to
keeping ALL viruses off the harddrive?




    Thanks
    Sean

     
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