Viruses

[Bruce Hinman]

If you have a virus tsr running such as McAfee's then you should have no
problem with floppies that are infected. Also, security programs such as
fortress 101 is very good at protecting the hard drive.

Bruce Hinman
Library Equipment Technician
Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno
bruceh at csufresno.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
[mailto:web4lib at library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Timothy Kambitsch
Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 2:48 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Viruses




Michael Sauers wrote in reply:

Re: Public Internet access and floppy drives -Reply

> >So they can use any disk they have.  No uploads, no viruses.
>
> Unfortunately, some viruses only need you to just access the disk so not
> allowing anything to be uploaded won't protect you completely.  (Not that
> there's a way to protect any computer completely short of unplugging it,
> locking it in a closet and loosing the key ;-)
>

Can anyone confirm this assertation?  It has always been my understanding
that files have to be read to spread a virus.  We have our WinNT
workstations
locked down so users can write to the A: drive, but cannot open any files.
Technically a save file dialog box has to read the directory of a disk to
display its contents.  But are there know viruses that can spead from merely

a directory read?

Tim