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From: mnkonar@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Protecting applications on server from viruses
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Date: 19 Jan 89 00:38:05 GMT
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In article <17734@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> py8j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Patti Kelly) writes:
>
>How would you protect applications on a fileserver (AppleShare 2.01)
>from viruses?  It's in a public site, and it holds WriteNow 2.0,
>Excel, SuperPaint, MacDraw.  At least these are the ones used most
>often.
>
>I think that it would be hard to spread the current viruses to the
>applications (nVIR, Scores) since we control the boot disks and have 
>Vaccine in all of the boot disk system folders, but maybe (probably)	
>something's coming that will be more easily spread.
>
>E-mail?  Thanks.
>
>Patti

I tried a little experiment to see if Vaccine would protect a Mac running
TOPS.  The short answer is NO.  
Here is what I did:

I published the hard disk of Mac A (which was running Vaccine and had
protection enabled).  I went to Mac B and mounted Mac A's hard disk via
TOPS.  Then I compiled a Lightspeed Pascal Project that resided on Mac A's
hard disk.  Normally Vaccine complaines when LSP compiles because it's
generating CODE resources.  No complaints this time.  Note that I did not
have Vaccine running on Mac B.  This leads me to believe that with TOPS
anyway, Vaccine will not protect vaccinated Macs from getting infected by a
remote Mac.

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Have a day. :^|
Murat N. Konar mnkonar@ely.UUCP
Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN