Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: mrs@netcom.com (Morgan Schweers) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Taking out A: & USSR BBS Message-ID: <0003.9104011657.AA02353@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 31 Mar 91 10:05:00 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 28 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu Greetings, I recently recommended to a network site that they lock their 'A' drives with a network boot diskette in them. Their 'B' drives should remain unlocked for data transfer. There are many companies that make disk drive door-locks, and this is a much 'nicer' solution than removing the drive entirely. In fact, one could lock the drive doors WITHOUT a disk in them, thus forcing a boot from the HD, and still allowing access to the B drive by anyone (and access to the 'A' drive by the computer-manager). The person commenting on the 'USSR BBS's' was SPECIFICALLY (as I recall) talking about the 'pro-virus' BBS's in the USSR. This is why they commented on the possible increase in virus spreading rates. The actual number of BBS's available from outside of the USSR is statistically insignificant for the tracking of viral spread. Moreover, as was said, BBS's are a very *RARE* way for viruses to spread (with the exception of BBS's dedicated to viruses). In fact, the current leader in virus statistics is the Stoned virus, a virus that is NOT INFECTIOUS through BBS's without hard work. -- Morgan Schweers +----- "Don't believe a word this man says. He's insane." -- mrs@netcom.com "Everything he says is true. He's the only sane person." -- ms@gnu.ai.mit.edu The contents of this message are the authors opinion, which (obviously) varies with many random variables. Everything is true, nothing is permissible. - -----+