Return-Path: XPUM04@prime-a.central-services.umist.ac.uk Received: from G.SEI.CMU.EDU by ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA21307; Thu, 7 Jun 90 13:37:35 -0400 Received: from SEI.CMU.EDU by g.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.5) id AA14014; Thu, 7 Jun 90 13:37:34 -0400 Received: from nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA01535; Thu, 7 Jun 90 13:37:25 -0400 Received: from sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by vax.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa21411; 7 Jun 90 17:42 BST From: Anthony Appleyard To: DAVIDF@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk Date: Thu, 07 Jun 90 15:32:36 BST Message-Id: <$TGVGDBVHFKTX at UMPA> Subject: Virus-L vol 0 issue #0711 Virus-L Digest Mon, 11 Jul 88, Volume 0 : Issue #0711 Today's Topics Question about virus simulator New version of PKARC on-line possible virus? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 09:49:04 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: "Kenneth R. van Wyk" Subject: Question about virus simulator As mentioned here some time back, the National Bulletin Board Society has a product called a virus simulator. They also, by the way, market an anti-virus program, but its name escapes me at the moment. Does anyone have any experience with their virus simulator that you could relate to VIRUS-L readers? It's supposed to test an anti-virus package against most of the current known virus infiltration methods. I've heard some conflicting messages about its usefulness, though. For example, it is alleged to come up with erroneous reports against some of the current crop of anti-virus products by reporting that a particular virus would be able to infect the system, when the opposite has been proven to be true. It would be interesting to hear some independent evaluation(s) of this product. Any comments on this sort of testing scheme? Ken Kenneth R. van Wyk Hobbes: Wow, buried treasure right User Services Senior Consultant where you said it'd be! A Lehigh University Computing Center wallet full of money! Internet: Calvin: Yeah, it's Dad's. I buried it BITNET: here last week! -------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 11:34:26 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: "Kenneth R. van Wyk" Subject: New version of PKARC on-line I finally got around to updating the PKARC program that's on-line here at Lehigh for VIRUS-L readers. I now have the file PK36 UUE available on the LISTSERV. The file was downloaded directly (by me) from SIMTEL20.ARPA. Keith Peterson got the version on SIMTEL20.ARPA directly from Phil Katz's bboard. As with all of the binaries on the LISTSERV, PK36 is distributed as a uuencoded file. See the monthly announcement message for instructions on how to uudecode this file back into a binary file. Ken Kenneth R. van Wyk Hobbes: Wow, buried treasure right User Services Senior Consultant where you said it'd be! A Lehigh University Computing Center wallet full of money! Internet: Calvin: Yeah, it's Dad's. I buried it BITNET: here last week! -------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 12:40:53 CDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: Len Levine Subject: possible virus? I heard just yesterday that one of my friends was having trouble with a copy of Norton Utilities version 3.00. He pointed out that the copy which he runs from a protected floppy disk works well, but when he loads that copy onto his hard disk, it fails. He also noted that the copy from the protected disk showed differences between itself and the hard disk copy he had just made. The problem repeated several times. No other symptoms. Any ideas? I have not tried to copy this material to my machine, I have not asked about the date signature on the copies, or about the sizes of the files. len@evax.milw.wisc.edu -------------------- *** end of Virus-L issue *** Return-Path: XPUM04@prime-a.central-services.umist.ac.uk Received: from G.SEI.CMU.EDU by ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA25772; Tue, 12 Jun 90 06:24:55 -0400 Received: from SEI.CMU.EDU by g.sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.5) id AA12873; Tue, 12 Jun 90 06:24:53 -0400 Received: from nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by sei.cmu.edu (5.61/2.3) id AA03918; Tue, 12 Jun 90 06:24:45 -0400 Received: from sun.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by vax.NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via Janet with NIFTP id aa09088; 12 Jun 90 10:59 BST From: Anthony Appleyard To: KRVW <@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK:KRVW@sei.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 90 11:02:36 BST Message-Id: <$TGVTCZHTCBNR at UMPA> Subject: Virus-L vol 0 issue #0711 Virus-L Digest Mon, 11 Jul 88, Volume 0 : Issue #0711 Today's Topics Question about virus simulator New version of PKARC on-line possible virus? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 09:49:04 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: "Kenneth R. van Wyk" Subject: Question about virus simulator As mentioned here some time back, the National Bulletin Board Society has a product called a virus simulator. They also, by the way, market an anti-virus program, but its name escapes me at the moment. Does anyone have any experience with their virus simulator that you could relate to VIRUS-L readers? It's supposed to test an anti-virus package against most of the current known virus infiltration methods. I've heard some conflicting messages about its usefulness, though. For example, it is alleged to come up with erroneous reports against some of the current crop of anti-virus products by reporting that a particular virus would be able to infect the system, when the opposite has been proven to be true. It would be interesting to hear some independent evaluation(s) of this product. Any comments on this sort of testing scheme? Ken Kenneth R. van Wyk Hobbes: Wow, buried treasure right User Services Senior Consultant where you said it'd be! A Lehigh University Computing Center wallet full of money! Internet: Calvin: Yeah, it's Dad's. I buried it BITNET: here last week! -------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 11:34:26 EDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: "Kenneth R. van Wyk" Subject: New version of PKARC on-line I finally got around to updating the PKARC program that's on-line here at Lehigh for VIRUS-L readers. I now have the file PK36 UUE available on the LISTSERV. The file was downloaded directly (by me) from SIMTEL20.ARPA. Keith Peterson got the version on SIMTEL20.ARPA directly from Phil Katz's bboard. As with all of the binaries on the LISTSERV, PK36 is distributed as a uuencoded file. See the monthly announcement message for instructions on how to uudecode this file back into a binary file. Ken Kenneth R. van Wyk Hobbes: Wow, buried treasure right User Services Senior Consultant where you said it'd be! A Lehigh University Computing Center wallet full of money! Internet: Calvin: Yeah, it's Dad's. I buried it BITNET: here last week! -------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 88 12:40:53 CDT Reply-To: Virus Discussion List Sender: Virus Discussion List From: Len Levine Subject: possible virus? I heard just yesterday that one of my friends was having trouble with a copy of Norton Utilities version 3.00. He pointed out that the copy which he runs from a protected floppy disk works well, but when he loads that copy onto his hard disk, it fails. He also noted that the copy from the protected disk showed differences between itself and the hard disk copy he had just made. The problem repeated several times. No other symptoms. Any ideas? I have not tried to copy this material to my machine, I have not asked about the date signature on the copies, or about the sizes of the files. len@evax.milw.wisc.edu -------------------- *** end of Virus-L issue ***