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From: buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
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Subject: Re: Viruses and Database Systems
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In article <10000@plains.NoDak.edu> haraty@plains.NoDak.edu (Ramzi A. Haraty) writes:
>In a database environment there would certainly be a lot of updates and
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>I was wondering how could one limit the infection of viruses into data
>items. In other words, how do we guarantee that untrusted users or
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>processes won't infect our database with viruses?

 Why are you allowing update access to untrusted users?