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From: jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: GateKeeper configurations - what do various programs need?
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Date: 12 Apr 89 19:30:43 GMT
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Reply-To: jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden)
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Hello.

    I run a Virus Clinic here at Dartmouth College.  People send me
mail and walk in to talk to me when they have virus problems.  I also
maintain the portion of our Public File Server here that contains
anti-viral programs and information, and I write articles and
troubleshooting documents for people around here.

    I like GateKeeper (I use it), and it's on the File Server, but one
of the problems I hear is that the average user doesn't really know how
(nor want to spend the time to learn) to figure out what programs need
what configurations.

    So I'm compiling a list of applications (etc), and what
configurations they need to do what.  I can determine that for all the
programs that I use, but I can't test everything.

    Would people out there who use GateKeeper please write me and tell
me how they have it configured?  (And also what problems or
virus-loopholes such configurations create.)

    Thanks in advance.


                                          -Josh Alden
                                            Joshua.Alden@dartmouth.edu