chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson) (06/09/89)
>Though this is probably old news, I'd recommend adding GateKeeper to >your INITs. Though it's absolutely transparent for all disc writes >you tell it to allow, it forbids completely any writes it doesn't know >to be authorised. As soon as I discovered how effective it is, I >removed Vaccine from my system: GateKeeper is much more thorough (as >it checks the writing of *any* resource, not just CODE) and much less >intrusive. > >Best of luck with your disinfection. > >Alastair Milne If you liked GateKeeper 1.1, you'll really like GateKeeper 1.1.1. It's been in testing (in various stages of completion) for several months now and should be available in the next few weeks. One (potentially) troublesome bug has been fixed and a good number of enhancements have been added. More details on 1.1.1 later. By the way, you're right that GateKeeper doesn't *just* protect CODE resources, but it's not true that it protects *all* resources. Protecting all resources is unnecessary (besides, you wouldn't want to have to grant privileges to every program that modifies one of its own 'STR ' resources). What GateKeeper does do is protect every type of resource known to contain executable code (there're about 26 of them, running from INIT and CODE (which you might expect viruses to attack) to others like 'snth' and 'MBDF' (which you might not)). [Anyone interested in the exact list can check GateKeeper's 'Type' 1 resource.] Fortunately, most of these protections are unnecessary against the current crop of viruses (and let's hope it stays that way), but the protections are there just the same (to help make sure it *does* stay that way). In response to another question I noticed a few articles down, GateKeeper is available for anonymous ftp from Sumex, Simtel, emx.utexas.edu and rascal.ics.utexas.edu. If these won't work for you, you can always send me (Chris Johnson) mail as chrisj@emx.utexas.edu and I'll send you a copy. Cheers, - ----Chris (Johnson) - ----Author of GateKeeper
phantom@athena.mit.edu (Mike Garrison) (01/02/90)
as a new reader I have what is probably an oft repeated question: is there an address to send to for info on gatekeeper, first aid, etc.... I would like to know how to order/obtain some of this software.