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In article <inoculation-0503971956150...@lorgecom.ppp.{*filter*}enet.net>,
:Did you know that:
:
:...6 to 9 NEW computer viruses are discovered EVERY SINGLE DAY??

Did *you* know that NO (none, zero, zilch) viruses are known that
affect IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, or Xenix? Did you know that
viruses are very difficult in any unix system that has hardware
memory protection? Did you know that you've posted to the wrong newsgroups?

:How can you win the battle against computer viruses?

What I'm interested in is how to win the battle against SPAM!

In article <inoculation-0503971956150...@lorgecom.ppp.{*filter*}enet.net>,
        inoculat...@lorge.com (Tim Lorge) writes:

Hmmm...

And I was told Unix didn't suffer from viri (plural of virus?)...

--

Best Regards,

Brian S. Craigie
Unix Sysadmin
NEC Semiconductors (UK) Ltd

< Of course I'm not speaking for my employer.  I'm not even speaking for me! >

In article <5flrdd$dt...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
           rober...@ibd.nrc.ca "Walter Roberson" writes:

Wrong! There is that virus that affect *all* computer systems, the user.

Trog Woolley
(A Croweater languishing in Pommie Land)
--
Excelsis Limited

br...@necs.demon.co.uk (Brian S. Craigie - Unix SA - NEC - Scotland)
contributed the following:

Guy walks into a bar, says to the bartender "I'd like a martinus", the
bartender says "You mean martini?", the guy says "If I'd wanted two,
I'd have asked for two!"

(With apologies to "Wayne and Schuster" (sp?),  :-)  ).

Regards, David.
-------------------------------------------------
David Clayton, e-mail: dcs...@acslink.aone.net.au
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

"Virtual Reality - Give it a rest, Actual Reality has me stressed enough as it is."

There are virus that can be carried by all computer systems, but that
don't infect any computer systems.  Users are very susceptible to infection
though.  The most successful viruses in this respect are the "Good Times",
"Deyeenda", "PEN PAL GREETINGS".  There used to be a very succesful one
called "Craig Shergold" and anotehr one called "FCC implements modem tax", but
the users seem to have gotten resistant to those (the latter one does
surface in other forms at times)

Casper
--
Expressed in this posting are my opinions.  They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

:
: Wrong! There is that virus that affect *all* computer systems, the user.

Viruses are unicellular.  Users, unfortunately, are multicellular
except above the neck.

Ward Griffiths
--
Q: What do you call a christian who accidently read the bible with his
brain turned on?                                         A: An atheist

In article <5fmhut$...@trout.co.uk> br...@necs.demon.co.uk
(Brian S. Craigie - Unix SA - NEC - Scotland) writes:

While not wishing to endorse the original spam, this is not exactly true.
What is so is that UNIX's architecture makes it more difficult for a virus
to exploit the system and/or replicate.  And UNIX users typically aren't
trading floppies like you find elsewhere, so you don't see them on UNIX
systems like you do on DOS/Windows or the Mac.

Though as we've just passed Michaelangelo's birthday, I'd point out that
an Intel-based system can catch a DOS/Windows boot sector virus even if
it has UNIX on it (from a config disk or whatever).  So one should take
care in that regard.

What some people consider to be the world's first computer virus (an
experimental program at, if my information is correct, UCSC) was on UNIX.
And some would say that with a loose definition of a virus, Kernighan's
ACM Turing Award lecture was about infecting UNIX.  The "worm" was not
technically a virus, but did spread and impact many systems on the net.

Some info on UNIX virus can be found in several issues of _Computing
Systems_, USENIX's technical journal.  The vol 2, spring 89 edition
includes "Experience with Viruses on UNIX Systems" by Tom Duff, and
"Virology 101" by McIlroy (both of Bell Labs).  There are probably
more.  The book _UNIX System Security_ by Rik Farrow (Addison-Wesley
1991, ISBN 0-201-57030-0) has probably the best discussion of UNIX
viruses available.

As a *practical* matter, viruses are not a problem on UNIX systems.
Certainly not the way they are in the DOS/Windows/Mac world.  But
one should not be entirely complacent, and I don't think it just
pedantry to say that UNIX viruses can and do exist (just that in
the host of various disasters which can strike, this would be very
very far down on my list of worries ;^).

Regards,

Tim

P.S. Interestingly, SCO just announced its InterScan VirusWall software
along with its latest Netscape products.  When installed on an SCO server,
the software intercepts and scans in real time all e-mail attachments, FTP
transfers, World Wide Web downloads and uploads and all movement of data
between in-house PCs, servers, LANs and the outside world.  Of course this
is to protect the DOS/Windows clients, not the server.  Now, if you could
just get rid of their floppy drives. %')

--
Language is a virus...

I always thought the first virus was an engineers' test programme called
Lurk, which ran on IBM's from the 360/70 era. As far as I recall (after
all it was nearly 20 years ago), this programme used to Lurk in the CPU
and assign unassigned devices to itself, thereby eventually gobbling all
the resources on the machine.  I recall a port to CDC {*filter*} machines. On
these boxes the operators console was an assignable device and if Lurk
got hold of it, killing the programme was a tad difficult. These programmes
weren't called worm, virus, etc back then.

Trog Woolley
(A Croweater languishing in Pommie Land)
--
Excelsis Limited

Netscape's proxy server provides this feature too.
Of course, it provides an even better solution - you can refuse to let the
proxy serve ftp for a Windows client at all :)

Regards,
--
*Art

Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer wrote:

None of those items listed are a computer virus.  They are simply chain
letters.  
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Jacob, System Administrator, Center for Language & Speech Processing
mail: ja...@jhu.edu                                 voice: 516x4787
- 1 wife, 1 boy, 1 girl, 4 sheep, 3 goats, 2 kids, assorted fowl -
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In article 4...@jhu.edu, Jacob <ja...@jhu.edu> writes:

I believe Casper said above that these particular "viruses" infect
users and not computers.
^^^^^

                Fletcher.Gl...@ov.com

Just to add my $.02, I had a client that lost a Sparc10 due to a virus that
was
placed by a hacker.  Had to reformat the disk and rebuild the whole OS.
Not sure
what the virus was but CERT is aware of it.  

Tim Robinson

Tim Ruckle <t...@sco.COM> wrote in article <5fsfag$...@hobbes.sco.com>...

: Excelsis Limited (Excel...@excels-w.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: :
: : Wrong! There is that virus that affect *all* computer systems, the user.

: Viruses are unicellular.  Users, unfortunately, are multicellular
: except above the neck.

Wow, can you name ONE uniCELLULLAR virus? I never heard of cellullar
virusses.

Philippe Stas

"It really spites me, but I can lay it out."
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: Ward Griffiths
: --
: Q: What do you call a christian who accidently read the bible with his
: brain turned on?                                         A: An atheist