Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!widener!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Do any viruses affect Novell? (PC) Message-ID: <0002.9104162011.AA07133@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Apr 91 02:26:02 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 29 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) writes: > What viruses (if any) affect Novell local area networks? Any DOS > virus? Over a broadband/ethernet LAN? I used to tell people that "why should a virus work on a network? Nothing else does!" However, that doesn't appear to be the case. Because of remapping of interrupts by network "shells", many viral programs will not work properly on a network. However, a number do. Network protection seems to be fairly effective against most, but not necessarily all, of these, so networks do seem to provide a measure of protection above that of "plain" MS-DOS. The people at Novell do not like unsubstantiated claims of viral programs that purportedly bypass network security, and you can't blame them. Unfortunately, substantiation is not always easy to come by, vis the company that called me about a program which reported itself as the "ICK virus" and was trashing their system. In spite of the fact that *they* were calling *me* as an expert in the field, they would not allow me to examine their system. Odd ideas of security there ... ============= Vancouver p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca | "Is it plugged in?" Institute for Robert_Slade@mtsg.sfu.ca | "I can't see." Research into (SUZY) INtegrity | "Why not?" User Canada V7K 2G6 | "The power's off Security | here."