IHLS400@INDYCMS.BITNET (Holly Lee Stowe) (08/04/89)
I asked Ken (hi!) whether I should report a recent infection here to someone, and to whom I should report it, and he suggested that I post it here and let those folks doing tracking contact me if need be... so... :-) We recently have found Yale/Alameda in 3 of our micro clusters on a total of approximately 10-12 disks. We also found it on one of our faculty's disks. Fortunately, we feel we caught it early on, and this particular virus is not difficult to eradicate, nor does it cause irreparable damage. The bad news is that we still do not have permission to put regular disk checking in place for our IBM clusters, and the discovery of the virus was more an accident than anything else. One of our consultants recently downloaded VIRUSCAN off Homebase and was showing it to another consultant. (Since our Scores infection in our Mac clusters last winter, every time a disk doesn't work, we here the cries of "Virus!". It turns out that this time it was valid.) I hope that with this infection, as it was with Scores, we will be given the green light to make some checking policies in the IBM clusters as well as the Mac's. Those who track infections of various viruses are welcome to contact me at IHLS400@INDYCMS.BITNET if they wish. Please don't become concerned if I don't respond immediately as I'm getting ready to go on *VACATION!* for 2 weeks. I will reply on my return. (Computers... just say NO! :-) - -Holly If something is preposterous, does it later become postposterous?