OT Re: [Sca-cooks] Recent Test

[Sue Clemenger]

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?)