Hard Disk Virus Protection

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From: Bill Silvert
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1988 11:44

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Two events have gotten me agitated about viruses -- getting an infected
disk from a friend in Germany, and getting a 60 Meg Supra for my
birthday.  I have several programs, including George Woodside's VKILLER
(which is a beautiful program by the way), for checking floppies, but
haven't heard of anything that will help with a hard disk.

My concern is that I might download a program which will infect my HD.
It seems that the only security is to run all programs only from
floppies, but this is pretty drastic -- like using Saran wrap all one's
life.  Some information on viruses would be appreciated, along with
advice on how to minimize risk to a HD.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
	UUCP: ...!{uunet,utai,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill
	CDN: biomel@cs.dal.CDN	BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET

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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard Disk Virus Protection
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Date: 22 Dec 88 11:44:21 GMT
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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