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From: CC011054@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU (Roman Olynyk - Information Services)
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Subject: Notifications for Network Viruses
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Date: 7 Jun 89 12:55:00 GMT
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I've recently completed a virus response procedure for our site, a
statewide educational telecomputing network.  This procedure
establishes an emergency action plan that we hope would reduce the
impact of a computer virus at WVNET.

One of the sections in our procedure deals with notifying authorities.
A couple of the following items took a little digging to get, and I
think that having these on hand for reference would be useful.  Every
moment spent deciding what to do during an outbreak of a virus may
give the virus another chance to spread.

*   VALERT-L list - if the virus is spreading outside of WVNET's
    network through BITNET or the Internet, a member of the Virus
    Response Team will post a warning to VALERT-L@LehiIBM1.  This
    list is dedicated to posting emergency warnings of detected
    viruses.

*   BITNIC - the BITNET Information Center in Washington, DC,
    should be notified in the event of a virus which affects the
    BITNET network.  Telephone number 202-872-4200.  Contact
    persons as of June 7, 1989 are Michael Hrybyk, James Conklin
    (director), and Amanda Spiegel.

*   SRI-NIC - the SRI International Network Information Center is
    the central information site for the Internet.  Telephone
    number 800-235-3155, available around the clock.  There is no
    designated contact person for SRI-NIC.

Besides the above three items, we also want to inform our management
team, primary contacts at the campuses of our member schools, and
(particularly where a serious incident is suspected to have originated
from within WVNET's environment) legal counsel.

[Ed. Another Internet contact point is the Computer Emergency Response
Team at Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.]