atama@blake.acs.washington.edu (Kakogawa) (10/20/89)
We have a network in the Microcomputer lab with more than 20 Macintoshes connected to it. We have been experiencing a severe bout of nVIR. It is usually nVIR-A or nVIR-B infecting the system or finder of the startup diskettes. It has also spread, we believe, extensively among users before we were alerted to it. The problem: We were told that the DA VirusDetective did not always detect the viruses probably. I haven't checked this personally. We started using SAM ... in the meanwhile because disinfectant crashed the multifinder periodically. Today we found that a diskette was reported by disinfectant to be virus-free BUT SAM ... reported it as being infected and we had it "repair"ed using SAM.... I have forgotten the full name for the antiviral program SAM.... Can anyone who is better informed enlighten us a) Why Disinfectant(V 1.2) didn't warn us? b) Is SAM whatever it is, better or is it just seeing ghosts (unlikely?)? c) We have Vaccine on the network. Why did it not alert us at the beginning? Actually, we caught on because vaccine eventually warned us. By that time so many diskettes and the network itself had become infected that we had it shut down. d) Is it true that the DA VirusDetective is not as fully reliable (at least for nVIR strains) as it should be? Soma Consultant, Microcomputer lab Health Sciences Building, UW PS. Please respond as completely as you can. If you feel this is a legitimate concern please respond on the net. If someone has already done it, but you have alternatives/insights please respond by e-mail. I'll summarize if I get any/many good replies. Thanks for your time.