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From: plains!haraty@uunet.UU.NET (Ramzi A. Haraty)
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Subject: Viruses and Database Systems
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Date: 26 Apr 91 16:15:07 GMT
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Greetings,
	Does anybody know how to handle viruses in a database system?
In a database environment there would certainly be a lot of updates
and 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 processes won't infect our database with viruses?

P.S. I am talking at the system level here.

Thanks is advance

Ramzi Haraty
email: haraty@plains.nodak.edu