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- Subject: Re: viruses in OS/2-environment
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.193008.16663@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:30:08 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec21.125223.1@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec21.125223.1@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
- >I'm looking for information (books, articles, news-items...) about the
- >spread of virusses in an OS/2-environment : have any infections (DOS or
- >OS/2 viruses) been reported yet ; what's the impact of compartmentalisation
- >on the infection power of DOS-viruses ; how is this compartmentalisation
- >actually realised within OS/2, etc. ...
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- I have a bit of information on viruses under OS/2 in the OS/2 FAQ List
- -- please start there.
-
- There are virus scanners available for OS/2 native mode, notably IBM's
- and the McAfee SCAN utility. McAfee CLEAN is also available (at least
- in beta).
-
- --
- Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
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