Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve) Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 89 00:34:36 GMT References: <5601@cbmvax.UUCP> <5602@cbmvax.UUCP> <10788@s.ms.uky.edu> <18668@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, <3200@sugar.uu.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: <3200@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article <10788@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: > >light at the end of the tunnel is probably a protected mode OS with > >enforced privileges. Once debugged, at this would at least protect the > >system files from a user running a virus. > > This wouldn't be enough. You would also need multiuser protection, and you > would need the USER to have enough discipline to not just sit in root all > the time, as home-unix folks are wont to do. > > And when you'd done this, you'll have lost enough real-time performance that > you might as well be running on a PC again. That remains to be seen... -Miles