Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0, Strike one, two.... Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 23:07:37 GMT References: <5878@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1991May22.011214.10977@midway.uchicago.edu> <5887@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 25 pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul BIG-EARS Menon) writes: >In article <1991May22.011214.10977@midway.uchicago.edu>, dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes: >... >> virus problems... >I'm not sure what sort of users you have, but GateKeeper does not stand >up to an intentional (or unintentional) hostile user, ie, one who goes out of >his/her way to wreak misery upon subsequent users of a Mac with a hard disk. SAM from Symantec does allow you to lock the settings with a password and make it much more difficult for a hostile user to do something nasty. I personally have machines in public use and we have had no problems with people intentionally doing damage. There have been a couple of viruses found (and stopped by SAM but noted in SAM's Audit Trail). I think that people reaking havock intentionally and those who write viruses are in the minority. And as far as VM is concerned, SIMMs are so cheap right now that I wonder why you bother! Personally I would be willing to give up VM and Personal FileShare if the only other option was to switch to Windows which has neither! -- Pat ----------------------------------------> hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov