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- From: JFORD@seebeck.ua.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Netware and viruses - some new results (PC)
- Message-ID: <0001.9208260151.AA01769@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 17:45:11 GMT
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- >Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 08:06:46 -0500
- >From: cohen@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au (Mr Fred Cohen)
- >
- >At QUT, we have set up an experimental network to test viruses in
- >networked environments, and the first results have just come in -
- >unbelievable!
- >
- >Test 1: Exhaustive test of netware preotection setting on files and
- >directories against common viruses.
- >
- >Result: Only 3 of the 15 bits provide any protection - Execute ONLY?
- >NO GOOD!!! Read ONLY? NO GOOD!!!
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- Is this using "FLAG (or FLAGDIR) file parameters" or using Syscon to
- grant specific File and directory rights to the account?
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- James Ford - Consultant II, Seebeck Computer Center
- jford@seebeck.ua.edu, jford@risc.ua.edu
- The University of Alabama (in Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
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