giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) (06/29/91)
The only virus problems I've encountered have been on Macs. Should I worry about getting an anti-virus program or CDEV (if available) for my harddrive? Any recommendations? Thanks, Rocky Giovinazzo
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (06/29/91)
In article <1991Jun29.012721.9395@risky.ecs.umass.edu> giovin@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes: >The only virus problems I've encountered have been on Macs. Should >I worry about getting an anti-virus program or CDEV (if available) >for my harddrive? Any recommendations? GS-specific viruses seem to be rare, by comparison with IBM PCs for example. There have been a few epidemics of 8-bit Apple software viruses, however. Glen Bredon has a shareware program called something like Apple.Rx that not only checks for known viruses, but also maintains a database of checksums for your files, so it can warn you if the contents of any of the files have changed. Unless you're really into BBS hacking and software piracy, I think your biggest worry ought to be how to back up the data on your disk; it can crash or, more likely, become corrupted for reasons other than viral attacks. Vitesse and others sell backup/restore utilities. In my case I copy the partitions onto Syquest removable cartridges, using device-image copy which goes very fast. The RAMfast reportedly supports background backup to some sort of SCSI tape unit, but I don't know the details.