py8j@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (01/18/89)
How would you protect applications on a fileserver (AppleShare 2.01) from viruses? It's in a public site, and it holds WriteNow 2.0, Excel, SuperPaint, MacDraw. At least these are the ones used most often. I think that it would be hard to spread the current viruses to the applications (nVIR, Scores) since we control the boot disks and have Vaccine in all of the boot disk system folders, but maybe (probably) something's coming that will be more easily spread. E-mail? Thanks. Patti
denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) (01/18/89)
From article <17734@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>, by py8j@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU: > > How would you protect applications on a fileserver (AppleShare 2.01) > from viruses? It's in a public site, and it holds WriteNow 2.0, > Excel, SuperPaint, MacDraw. At least these are the ones used most > often. Write protect every folder on the server. I've been doing this sucessfully for about a year now. I have the following applications on my server and they are servicable: MacWrite 5.01 MacDraw 1.9.6 MacPaint 2.0 Copy II Mac 7.0 Symantec Utilities 1.0 LightSpeed C 2.15 Network Diskfit 1.41 Word 3.01 MacRecorder Prototyper Turbo Pascal Excel MacDraw II Some programs store set up information in their own resource fork. You will need to set this information up while you have write access to the folders. For example, MacWrite stores the location of its dictionaries in itself. Ready Set Go! 4.5 needs to have its folder write enabled because it creates a temporary file. Multiplan bombs as you quit after running off of AppleShare. -- William C. DenBesten denbeste@bgsu.edu
mnkonar@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) (01/19/89)
In article <17734@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> py8j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Patti Kelly) writes: > >How would you protect applications on a fileserver (AppleShare 2.01) >from viruses? It's in a public site, and it holds WriteNow 2.0, >Excel, SuperPaint, MacDraw. At least these are the ones used most >often. > >I think that it would be hard to spread the current viruses to the >applications (nVIR, Scores) since we control the boot disks and have >Vaccine in all of the boot disk system folders, but maybe (probably) >something's coming that will be more easily spread. > >E-mail? Thanks. > >Patti I tried a little experiment to see if Vaccine would protect a Mac running TOPS. The short answer is NO. Here is what I did: I published the hard disk of Mac A (which was running Vaccine and had protection enabled). I went to Mac B and mounted Mac A's hard disk via TOPS. Then I compiled a Lightspeed Pascal Project that resided on Mac A's hard disk. Normally Vaccine complaines when LSP compiles because it's generating CODE resources. No complaints this time. Note that I did not have Vaccine running on Mac B. This leads me to believe that with TOPS anyway, Vaccine will not protect vaccinated Macs from getting infected by a remote Mac. ______________________________________________________________________ Have a day. :^| Murat N. Konar mnkonar@ely.UUCP Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN