Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Viruses 4096 and 1260 on BBS (PC) Message-ID: <0008.9002121947.AA15751@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Feb 90 16:25:05 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 20 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu USERGSVE@LNCC.BITNET (GEORGE SVETLICHNY) writes: :What David forgets to mention is that the BBS is the safest source of :virus-free files *as long as the BBS is infected* with these viruses. :Will Sysops now start deliberately infecting their boards with these :viruses so as to assure the users clean files? Is your BBS infected, :Dave? ;-) Not as of last weekend, the last time I ran scanv57. Actually, I've never *seen* a virus, nor have any other local sysops so far as I'm aware (it hasn't been mentioned in the fidonet sysops echo, anyway). Getting serious for half a second, the other problem is that most software on a bbs is in archived form; if the files are infected inside the archive wrapper, the virus won't disinfect itself when reading them even if the bbs *IS* infected. Oh well :-) - -- David Dyer-Bennet, ddb@terrabit.fidonet.org or ddb@network.com or Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 9600hst/2400/1200/300 or terrabit!ddb@Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!terrabit!ddb