sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (01/02/89)
[If you can read this your line eater Heres a little tip(?) that might help fight off this new Euro-Virus if you have a hard drive! Make a partition on your hard drive under FFS (FastFileSystem) for *ONLY* your workbench and Extras disk. Then using the 1.3 "LOCK" cmd, lock out the entire partition. If this new virus is going to go after things like the C: directory, why not lock your C: directory?!? Oh, just in case a new version tries to "UnLOCK" your hard drive, use the password feature. It may not stop the virus, but it sure can make it a bit harder ;-) Sneakers PS: Make the "LOCK" command 3rd in your startup-sequence, right after setpatch and binddrivers. -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave. Of course heimat is an Amiga. West Lawn, PA 19609 Doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga? Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS - 60+ Megs - 24 Hrs - 12/2400 Baud - 215/678-7691
sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (01/02/89)
In Message <5376.AA5376@heimat>, I wrote: > Heres a little tip(?) that might help fight off this new Euro-Virus if > you have a hard drive! > > Make a partition on your hard drive under FFS (FastFileSystem) for > *ONLY* your workbench and Extras disk. Then using the 1.3 "LOCK" cmd, > lock out the entire partition. If this new virus is going to go after > things like the C: directory, why not lock your C: directory?!? Oh, > just in case a new version tries to "UnLOCK" your hard drive, use the > password feature. > > It may not stop the virus, but it sure can make it a bit harder ;-) > > Sneakers > > PS: > Make the "LOCK" command 3rd in your startup-sequence, right after > setpatch and binddrivers. > It was early AM when I posted this and after getting a few hours sleep I realised this is not quite correct! Its hard to lock an unmounted partition ;-). Try this: setpatch binddrivers fastmemfirst mount ffs: ; replace "ffs:" with your partition name assign sys: ffs: ; short delay so lock doesn't fail lock ffs: on password ; replace "ffs:" & "password" ... ; the rest of your startup-sequence -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave. Of course heimat is an Amiga. West Lawn, PA 19609 Doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga? Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS - 60+ Megs - 24 Hrs - 12/2400 Baud - 215/678-7691 -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave. Of course heimat is an Amiga. West Lawn, PA 19609 Doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga? Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS - 60+ Megs - 24 Hrs - 12/2400 Baud - 215/678-7691