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From: engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: virus
Summary: how to protect a public cluster of macs
Keywords: virus
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Date: 12 Sep 88 14:24:14 GMT
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Reply-To: engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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We have around 75 mac+'s w/20M HDs publicly available for students to use.
We were We were recently hit by a virus. I'd like some suggestions on how
we can protect ourselves.

My idea is to use a hard disk partitioning program to split the hardisks
into 2 partitions; one with the system + applications and one for the
students to use. If we could lock the system partition, it seems that
this would solve our problem for the most part. (I'll concede that a
determined and bright enough person can always do damage)

Do any of the currently available partitioning packages allow this?

Does anyone see any problems with my suggestion and/or does anyone have
any other ideas?

Please respond email and I'll post a summary if I get a soln.

-ME  engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu