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- From: martin@cs.ualberta.ca (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Apologies to Padgett, and clarification (PC)
- Message-ID: <0012.9211191448.AA21875@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:20:55 GMT
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- Reading over two of my recent posts, about the Monkey virus, I realize
- one could get the impression I am critical of Padgett Peterson's
- "Fixutils" and "Disk Secure" packages. Not at all!
-
- I still find Disk Secure to be the best, simplest, and cheapest
- software way I know of to protect against MBR infectors. That's why
- the University of Alberta uses it in all its "public access" DOS
- computer labs. And that, unfortunately, is why Monkey was written to
- by-pass Disk Secure. Far from a statement against Disk Secure, this
- is a lesson on the limitations of any software-based protection
- system: a directed attack, however unlikely, is always a possibility.
-
- Similarly FixMBR demonstates an interesting and straightforward way to
- recover from almost all MBR viruses. But not from Monkey, and
- presumably once again for the same reason. :)
-
- Tim.
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- Tim Martin *
- Spatial Information Systems * "I really don't see how returning
- University of Alberta * the product helps me."
- martin@cs.ualberta.ca *
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