coffey@sdsu.UUCP (Pat Coffey) (05/28/88)
I have been reading about all these horrible viruses and have been concerned
about my system. What happens if a virus gets onto your hard disk? I
have heard of a program called penicilin -- where does one obtain it?
I would appreciate it if someone could send some anti viral programs
to the net.
Pat Coffeywoodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside) (05/31/88)
In article <3036@sdsu.UUCP> coffey@sdsu.UUCP (Pat Coffey) writes: >I have been reading about all these horrible viruses and have been concerned >about my system. What happens if a virus gets onto your hard disk? So far, none of the virus programs I've encountered attack a hard disk. that doesn't mean that they won't, eventually. The only thing you can do is back up your hard disk frequently, and be careful of new software. Be especially careful of anything you receive on a disk (From friends, user groups, P/D distributors, etc.) You should keep one known-to-be-clean disk around, and always have that disk in your drive when you power the system up or press reset. And keep your disks in write protect mode unless you have to write to them. >I have heard of a program called penicilin -- where does one obtain it? I posted it here a few weeks ago. It is also on GEnie and Compuserve. >I would appreciate it if someone could send some anti viral programs >to the net. > Pat Coffey Patience, please. The new one is about 48 hours from being posted. I just have to get the monochrome version working, and get someone else to test it. I think it does everything just dandy, but I wrote it, so I'm not too objective. It attempts to be a useable tool for anyone with an ST. You don't have to know how a disk is utilized, how a virus works, or even what a virus is to use the new program. It will detect the virus programs I've received so far, warn you if they are present, warn you if there is a virus working in your system when the program is running, clean up disks, and everything else I could think of. So far, though, the automatic fix-dinner-and-get-me-a-cold-beer subroutine keeps crashing :^). -- *George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA *Path: ..!{trwrb|philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside