ACSMARTIN@EKU.BITNET (Bob Martin) (11/28/90)
Josh & whomever, We have not had any difficulty with the WDEF viruses since we put GateKeeper and GateKeeper Aid on our MACs. I particularly like the fact that the program DOES take care of the folks that you mentioned - -- "Idiots that continue to use the same old infected disks.....". For those of us that work in educational settings -- GateKeeper and Disinfectant are a must, in my humble opinion. I truly appreciate the authors dedication to providing us such fine products -- for free!! BTW, we also provide a means for folks to get these fantastic programs at our Micro Center -- they just bring a blank disk and we give them a locked disk with the programs on it..... Bob Martin -- Eastern KY U. -- Academic Computing Services Bitnet: Acsmartin@eku.bitnet or Graphics@eku.bitnet
lev@rsdps.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev) (12/01/90)
ACSMARTIN@EKU.BITNET (Bob Martin) writes... >- -- "Idiots that continue to use the same old infected disks.....". For >those of us that work in educational settings -- GateKeeper and >Disinfectant are a must, in my humble opinion. I truly appreciate the >authors dedication to providing us such fine products -- for free!! > >BTW, we also provide a means for folks to get these fantastic programs >at our Micro Center -- they just bring a blank disk and we give them a >locked disk with the programs on it..... Amen to that! I was volunteered to handle "Mac Security" (i.e., anti-virus activities) here a while back, and have lost track of how many people tell me they NEVER EVER NEVER swap floppies with anyone so their system is clean -- just as Disinfectant starts telling me their system file and/or desktop file and/or multiple applications have been chomped on within the same month! I put together the "MacSecure" package here, based mainly on John Norstad's "Disinfectant", and threw in a couple of helpful HyperCard stacks (v1.2.5). It's available from dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov and dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov in binhex format via Anon FTP... (MacSecure 2.3a is available; I expect to have 2.4 out late next week.) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Brian Lev/STX (301)286-9514 (FTS)888-9514 | | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DECnet: SDCDCL::LEV (6153::LEV) | | Advanced Data Flow Technology Office TCP/IP: lev@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov | | Code 930.4 BITNET: LEV@DFTBIT | | Greenbelt, MD 20771 TELENET: [BLEV/GSFCMAIL] | | X.400 Address: (C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,PRMD:GSFC,O:GSFCMAIL,UN:BLEV) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The ability of a network to knit together the members of a sprawling | | community has proved to be the most powerful way of fostering scienti- | | fic advancement yet discovered." -- Peter Denning | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DISCLAIMER: THESE STATEMENTS ARE MY OWN AND *NOT* NASA'S OR STX'S! | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+