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From: micor!esleng!esleng.ocunix.on.ca!dag@uunet.UU.NET (Dave Gilmour)
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Subject: Questions re. UNIX viruses (UNIX)
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Date: 1 Apr 91 20:18:49 GMT
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Our company is currently under contract to provide some software to a
customer that is worried that, because our system is connected to the
USENET, it could potentially become infected with a virus and
subsequently transmit that virus to their machine via the delivered
software.

Given this, I basically have three questions:

1)	Are viruses a problem on UNIX machines that are connected to the
	net?  We do not accept binary UNIX sources on our machine, so I
	presume that trojans are more likely to be a problem than viruses.

2)	If viruses are out there ready to infect my UNIX machine, is there
	any software that I can run to detect/remove them from my machine?

3)	What steps should I take in order to "reduce the risk" |-)

Any help in the matter will be greatly appreciated. As always, if
there is sufficient interest I will summarize to the net.

Thanks.

System Info : ISC2.2 System V R3.2, Everex Step 386/33

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David A. Gilmour            |   dag@esleng.ocunix.on.ca
Excalibur Systems Limited   |   uunet!mitel!cunews!micor!esleng!dag
Kanata, Ontario, Canada     |