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- From: haverkam@uni-duesseldorf.de (Wilhelm Haverkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Viruses in Novell installation.
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:26:56 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
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- In 1991 the system administrator of a small company
- in Duesseldorf area detected the VASCINA virus
- and the 1701/1704 virus. His Novell version was
- SFT 286, V. 2.15.
- The system administrator believes that his network
- was infected by a demonstration disc given to
- him by another person. Unfortunately he used
- for demonstration purposes one of his network PC's.
-
- The system administrator is arguing that he had needed
- about 36 hours to run COMPSURF and some more hours
- to restore the programm files. Now his company wants
- compensation from the person who gave them the
- demonstration disc.
-
- The demonstration took place in the late afternoon,
- the viruses were found the next morning. The owner
- of the demonstration disc had taken the disc with him after the
- demonstration was finished.
-
- By using a pretence the system administrator asked that person
- 2 days later to send him the demonstration disc again. The
- viruses were found on the disc, too.
-
- My questions are:
-
- - Who has got experiences with the above mentioned
- viruses in Novell networks with SFT 286, V. 2.15?
- - What would have been an adequate reaction of the
- system administrator when he detected VACSINA and
- 1701/1704 viruses? For my opinion the "number of passes
- for the sequential test" (which takes much time)
- within COMPSURF could have been restricted to 1; do you agree?
- - The owner of the disc is argueing that his disc was free of
- viruses when he took it to the demonstration. He says
- that perhaps by other events the viruses came into the
- network; later on the owner of the network could have
- infected the disc by himself.
- Is there a doubtless method to find out at what time
- the disc was infected? My opinion is that the date-informations
- in the directory of the disc could have been manipulated.
-
- Any help will be appreciated. Please post directly to me.
-
- Wilhelm Haverkamp
-