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Article #11472Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve)
From: Raul Miller
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 20:47
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1989 20:47
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You know, there is a simple way of defeating most of the current
generation of virus-type-programs: never do a warm boot from disk.
In other words, do your warm boots from ram disk. This is
analogous to write protecting your boot disks, and to avoiding
use of root privilege under unix (both are also good ideas).
Aside from that, I think it a very good idea to have the option
of seeing and aborting write permission on a file by file
and process by process basis... Any security measures can be
bypassed, but the more I can look at what my machine is doing,
the better I feel about it.
Raul Miller |
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Raul Miller |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!elroy!orion.cf.uci.edu!oberon!nunki.usc.edu!sal55.usc.edu!raulmill From: raulmill@sal55.usc.edu (Raul Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve) Summary: brute force virus protection Keywords: virus, ramdisk Message-ID: <2330@nunki.usc.edu> Date: 12 Jan 89 20:47:59 GMT References: <5601@cbmvax.UUCP> <5602@cbmvax.UUCP> <10788@s.ms.uky.edu> <10795@s.ms.uky.edu> <3205@sugar.uu.net> Sender: news@nunki.usc.edu Reply-To: raulmill@nunki.usc.edu (Raul Miller) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 22