Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: MacSE, keeping out viruses Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 21:36:58 GMT References: <12110.27B0A6C6@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> <58898@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Feb11.212518.20526@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: swsh@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Mon, 11 Feb 91 21:25:18 GMT Note for anybody wanting to reply: my address is francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu. The From: line will probably be messed up. In article <1991Feb11.212518.20526@midway.uchicago.edu> swsh@ellis.uchicago.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes: In article <58898@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> seanhull@acsu.buffalo.edu (Sean P. Hull) writes: > 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. Either you haven't updated your copy of SAM, or something is wrong with the way you have it configured. SAM should be able to guard against all known viruses (and in some cases, unknown ones). There is also a quite new virus out, I have heard (in RL, not on the Net), from Spain. Disinifectant 2.5 will (supposedly) be coming out in the next couple of days to handle it; presumably, SAM will handle it soon. Disclaimer: I cannot entirely vouch for the accuracy of this information; it came from somebody working with JLN, but it is at least possible he was misinformed. (No, I won't give his name--this is my post, not his. [Except, probably, to JLN, if it matters.]) Claimer: This person's information has always been reliable in the past. :-) -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/