dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton) (10/25/89)
In article <7291@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> joe@amos.UUCP (Joe) writes (with changes): >In (Andrew J. Worth) writes: >> [various stuff about system errors in various applications ] >>Andy "the frustrated". > > >Andy, > > Since you didn't mention it, I really suggest you check for instances > of virus "infection." I haven't heard of too many virus troubles lately, > but you never know... > > Look around for the various "innoculations" and "vaccines" that > are now on the market. I'm not sure what the best of them are, > but your technician should know. The "Killvirus" init works fine for > me. I don't know how up-to-date the Killvirus init is, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's been out for a while and is rather out-of-date. For guarding against virus attacks, use either Vaccine 1.0 or (better) GateKeeper 1.1.1. GateKeeper has more sophisticated protection (and more online help than Vaccine. Both GateKeeper and Vaccine are available via anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu. For detecting and eradicating infections, the only thing I would trust with my disks is Disinfectant 1.2, by John Norstaad at Northwestern University (Chicago). This program is excellent. It is fast, effective, and easy to use. It has extensive online information about known viruses. It also has a built-in check which will not allow itself to run if it is infected (which is more important than it may at first seem--think about it). Finally, it is safe to use for eradicating infections, which is more than I'll say about any other program I've used, especially ResEdit. (Disclaimer: there are quite a few tools I haven't used. Not even I know what all of them are. :-) Disinfectant is also available via anonymous ftp from sumex. Kudos once again to author John Norstaad for providing a free, effective, and easy-to-use tool for fighting viruses. -- David Walton Internet: dwal@tank.UChicago.EDU University of Chicago { Any opinions herein are my own, not } Computing Organizations { those of my employers (or anybody else). }