OT Re: [Sca-cooks] Recent Test
Sue Clemenger
mooncat at in-tch.com
Thu Feb 5 06:59:14 PST 2004
Here at home, I've just got software installed on my hard drive that I
run. Plus, my ISP has these amazing spam and virus filters....
At work, the entire system (some 250 of us) runs a virus check on all
computers in the building (excepting the programmers, who have their
own, self-contained network) once a week. They have all kinds of decoy
computers and odd things in place--something, for instance, that
automatically changes any .exe attachment to a text file. I'm not sure
what kind of server we have, although we do have "address books."
--maire
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> Sorry to intrude with this, but on a
> slightly-less-topical-if-just-as-important note, I wonder if anybody can
> help with a question or two...
>
> On the old-style Macs (which occasionally had viruses written for them,
> or suffered from various MS macros and such), you checked with any of
> several pieces of virus-scan software, preferably booting from a
> certified-virus-free, locked volume, such as a Virex or Norton
> Anti-virus, CD. (I remember the days of the Disinfectant Floppy, though.)
>
> When you guys scan your PCs for viruses, are you doing it in some
> similar manner, or just running some antivirus software sitting on a
> hard drive that may be infected? If the latter, doesn't that threaten
> the integrity of the results? Or am I belaboring the obvious? Also, do
> these viruses work on people who use SMTP servers, and actually have no
> local address book file? (Or do SMTP server users actually have a local
> address book file as some kind of backup?)
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