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From: masjol@dou.dk (J|rgen Olsen)
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Subject: RE:CERTUS STUDY mentioned in - VIRUS-L Digest V4 #94
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Date: 3 Jun 91 07:45:00 GMT
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RE: LAN's as vehicle for spreading virii!
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We run an installation including 700 MAC/PC's (250+450), 8 Novell
Nets, 6 3+SHARE-nets, Appletalk etc.

The remarks below refers mainly to our experience with the Novell-nets
in the Dep. of Social Sciences - 5 - with 120+ workstations.
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This is mainly a question of network management.

1. Certainly - in a university where students can load programs into
   the netdrives - an infected program can be spread. BUT -

2. Serious problems only arise if someone with Supervisor rights are
   infected when logging in to do a bit of system Admin.

3. So the combination - daily scanning of areas where users (students)
   can leave their (games,pirate copies (sorry) etc) and removal of same
   combined with carefull network management (scanning of RAM & local
   disk) will do the trick.

4. We still have to see a Virus infecting the Netware - without a bit
   of outside help - as described under 2.
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Anybody with a comment to 4. ??
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Do not bother to suggest that we install TSR's etc for checking. We
have tried - but a number of our applications are RAM-hungry - and
some does not even like some of those TSR - e.g. they start behaving
funny. But a bit of planning and prevention can do the trick - or have
done so til this moment.

J Olsen
Academic Information Systems
University of Odense
Denmark