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From: edelheit@smiley.uucp (Jeff Edelheit)
Subject: Network Viruses
Message-ID: <1991May22.171859.12004@linus.mitre.org>
Keywords: viruses
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Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 17:18:59 GMT

While issues related to viruses on stand-alone PC's are relatively
well understood (e.g., how to prevent, detect, fix), I'm at a loss
when it comes to specifics about what to do with respect to viruses on
PC lans.  Specifically, what steps should be taken with respect to
preventing the inadvertent insertion of a virus on a Novell server,
how does one scan a NetWare volume (or disk) to determine if a virus
is present, and how does one disinfect a NetWare volume or disk?

My question is applicable to both the 286 and 386 NetWare products.
I'd appreciate any information folks may have to pass on.  If you are
unwilling to post to the entire newsgroup, please just respond to me.
If I get a significant number of direct responses, I'll summarize the
results for the newsgroup (I'll keep the direct respondent's names
out of my summary.)

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Edelheit           email:  edelheit@smiley.mitre.org
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