werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (10/05/88)
Friends,
it has become apparent to me that the items I keep in the FTP-archives
on RASCAL in the subdirectory "virus-tools" are not as complete a
collection as people "in need" may wish; and as it seems the archive
has become better known and quite a few people try to use it (I get
quite a few requests for more info or help than I have available)
it would be nice if you folks out there could help me complete the
collection of tools and helpful "how-to" articles (and pointers
to such articles in print) and to keep them up-to-date.
Please realize, that I am neither particularly interested in viruses
nor do I have much time or any obligations to keep FTPable archives,
I just do it because I believe in sharing information and because
noone else seemed to collect this info in one place....
I, therefore, decided that I should make a (modest) effort to try
and complete the online collection of virus-information
- and I would like to request your cooperation for that!!!
A little history first: Sometimes in April '88, I started to save
some interesting articles floating by on USENET concerning the
SCORES-virus to have the info conveniently available "just in
case". But as I was neither really worried about dealing with
a virus (should I have to) and as I knew that all the old, posted
information was just an FTP away from me on SIMTEL or SUMEX, I was
not very diligent in collecting articles ...
...nor did I try to retrieve the ones I had already seen
go by before (not to speak of extracting the ones in the DELPHI
or INFO-MAC digests)
At a later point in time, I thought it would be useful to the net
if I'd create a FTP-archive with a collection of virus fighting
tools and information about virus-fighting in general.
For reasons described above, I have only few news-articles now,
practically all addressing the SCORES virus (but I get a lot of
questions on nVir, lately, as there seems to be a new, more
dangerous strain, if I believe the voices of desperation reaching
me ...:-) and I would like to invite you folks out there to
let me know what else you have (or simply to send it to me)
so I can integrate it in to the collection.
Here is a list of headers of the articles currently available
in RASCALs FTP-archive ~ftp/mac/virus-tools under filename
virus-news.mainly-SCORES
( a new file-name, result of my just finished review of the
situation )
MM>h a
K 1) 13-Apr Jim Macak "SCORES" virus (13498 chars)
K 2) 13-Apr Jim Macak Re: "SCORES" virus (9835 chars)
3) 18-Apr Phil Draughon ( The Scores Virus (10555 chars)
U 4) 25-Apr Phil Draughon ( Scores Virus Report 2 (6416 chars)
U 5) 26-Apr ephraim vishnia Re: Scores Virus Report 2 (2115 chars)
6) 29-Apr Joel B Levin Vaccine: what can trigger it (1446 chars)
U 7) 2-May Phil Draughon ( Scores Report 3 (3696 chars)
I'd expect that others may have kept a more complete collection of
articles; please take a moment and send to me what you have;
below, I enclose a directory listing of virus-tools; I understand
that some of the software should be replace by later versions;
again, I plead for submissions of updates; BTW, anything mailed
to me gets also forwarded to the archives at SIMTEL20 and SUMEX,
and to the comp.binaries.mac moderator...
werner on rascal <148> l
Antipan_APPL.sit_hqx Vaccination_1pt0_APPL.pit_hqx.Z
Ferret-1pt0_APPL.sit_hqx.Z Vaccine_CDEV.Hqx.Z
Guard_Dog_CDEV.sit_hqx.Z VirusDetective-DA_1pt2.Hqx.Z
Interferon-2pt0_APPL.pit_hqx.Z VirusRx-1pt02a_APPL.sit_hqx.Z
KillScores_1pt0_APPL.hqx.Z VirusWarningINIT.hqx.Z
KillVirus_INIT.Urlichs.Z virus-news.mainly-SCORES
PS: please note that file-names ending in .Z indicate compressed files
which can be FTPed only with a 8-bit (binary) connection.
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