ISTJWF@ASUACAD.BITNET (James Fish) (11/20/90)
At Arizona State University, we have put together a "Network Virus Committee" to examine virus related issues and hopefully develop some polices and guidelines. I'm hoping some of you may be able to assist me in gathering information that would be of use to our committee. There are several things that would be of tremendous use: 1) Information from any other colleges, universities or other organizations that have addressed these same concerns on a campus wide basis. Specifically, final reports or recommendations on issues like education, prevention and eradication of viruses would be useful. 2) Polices for interconnecting LANs - specifically, we would like to have guidelines for departments that wish to connect their LANS to a recently installed Ethernet backbone at ASU. Our concern is that network administrators take proper steps to keep their networks clean and ultimately, prevent the spread of viruses across the backbone. 3) Any recommendations on articles and other literature appropriate to this area. Are there any places to FTP articles from? Also, we are interested in finding some knowledgeable individuals to come and speak to our committee and perhaps other members of the university community about these issues. 4) Specific recommendations on software to help in the detection, eradication and prevention of viruses for network servers, workstations, and stand alone machines would also be helpful. Ideally, we'd like something that is effective, adaptable and relatively inexpensive (as most you know, university budgets can impose a BIG restraint!) The platforms we are most concerned with are DOS (Windows, etc..), UNIX, and Macintosh. Any information any of you can provide on any or all of these areas would GREATLY be appreciated!! Thanks! James Fish Student Systems Analyst Arizona State University ISTJWF @ ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU ISTJWF @ ASUACAD.BITNET