Re: Viruses 4096 and 1260 on BBS (PC)

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From: David Dyer-Bennet
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 16:25

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USERGSVE@LNCC.BITNET (GEORGE SVETLICHNY) writes:
:What David forgets to mention is that the BBS is the safest source of
:virus-free files *as long as the BBS is infected* with these viruses.
:Will Sysops now start deliberately infecting their boards with these
:viruses so as to assure the users clean files? Is your BBS infected,
:Dave? ;-)

Not as of last weekend, the last time I ran scanv57.  Actually, I've
never *seen* a virus, nor have any other local sysops so far as I'm
aware (it hasn't been mentioned in the fidonet sysops echo, anyway).

Getting serious for half a second, the other problem is that most
software on a bbs is in archived form; if the files are infected
inside the archive wrapper, the virus won't disinfect itself when
reading them even if the bbs *IS* infected.  Oh well :-)
- --
David Dyer-Bennet, ddb@terrabit.fidonet.org
or ddb@network.com
or Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 9600hst/2400/1200/300
or terrabit!ddb@Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!terrabit!ddb

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Subject: Re: Viruses 4096 and 1260 on BBS (PC)
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