Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l
Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:23:14 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Computer Viruses

3 Messages, 120 Lines
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From: soolee@mcis.messiah.edu
Subject: Computer Viruses

According to one of Academic Application Programmers in our campus,
Norton Anti-Virus is a good product for detecting and removing viruses.  It is
produced by Symantec.  Most computer stores should have or be able to get
it for you.

For further details, contact:
Allen E. Stoner
Academic Application Programmer
Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027
Internet: astoner@mcis.messiah.edu
Voice: (717) 766-2511 ext 7109

or

Soo Lee
Head, Technical Services
Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027
Internet: soolee@mcis.messiah.edu
Voice: (717) 766-2511 ext 3850
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From:     LBA002@LIBRARY.TEESSIDE.AC.UK
Subject:  Virus Book?

A couple of days ago, a message appeared on PACS-L from France asking for
help with a virus infection of library software.

I replied with the usual stuff about using VSHIELD, VSCAN, CLEANUP etc.
This is the reply that I got:
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From: jbcondat@com.attmail
Date: 31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT
To: LBA002 <LBA002%UK.AC.TEESSIDE.LIBRARY@uk.ac.rutherford.ibm-b>
Received: from jbcondat by attmail; Fri Nov 20 10:28:00 GMT 1992
Phone: +33140101775
Fax-Phone: +33140101764
Subject: Re: Virus Infection
Content-Type: text

Bonjour,

Thank you very much for your quick answer to my request of information related
to some computer viruses that have infected my library software. Since some
days a book as being publish in France (see enclosed reprint) and all micro-
computers are ill :-)

The enclose reprint article give you some idea of the title of the book that
create like a polemic. Do you have had the same thing in Great-Britain?

Regards,
jbc
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Jean-Bernard CONDAT (General Secretary)------Chaos Computer Club France [CCCF]
B.P. 8005, 69351 Lyon Cedex 08// France //43 rue des Rosiers, 93400 Saint-Ouen
Phone: +33 1 40101775, Fax.: +33 1 40101764, Hacker's BBS (8x): +33 1 40102223

From "Intelligence Newsletter", No. 202 (Oct. 8, 1992), Page 5, by O. Schimdt


                    MAKING THE NEWS AND BOOKSTANDS


The computer virus "threat" is back in the news with a new study by IBM
specialist Jeffrey O. Kephart and on the bookstands with a French do-it-
yourself build-your-own manual on viruses. According to Kephart of IBM's
High Integrity Computing Laboratory, most previous theories on the "social
structure of computer use and networks were faulty": not every machine
could make contact with every other machine in one, two or three "steps".
Most individual computers are not connected to others systems but only
to their nearest neighbors. Therefore, most infections take place not through
networks, but through the physical exchange of disks. Moreover, many of the
1,500 known viruses are not good replicators and many are not destructive.
Even the remaining good replicators are "almost all defeated by normal
anti-virus programs." To advance knowledge such as this concerning viruses,
*Chaos Computer Club France* (CCCF) has decided to publish the French trans-
lation of "The Black Book of Computer Virus" by Mark Ludwig "which was
censored in the U.S." (French title, "C'est decide! J'ecris mon virus,"
Editions Eyrolles). [...] The book contains "computer codes for writing your
own virus," but according to CCCF any such virus can be defeated by normal
anti-virus programs. Moreover, there is no French law forbidding the publi-
cation of virus computer codes. The book is intended for "responsible adults"
and bears the warning "Forbidden for readers not 18 years old".

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It would appear that the original message and this reply are actually from
the President of the Chaos Computer Club France (or am I mistaken?)

If it is he would seem to be a correspondent to avoid (especially in the area
of exchanging software!)

Rgds,

Iain Noble
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From:         Debra Schneider <DSCHNEID@INDYSTTI>
Subject:      Re: Computer Viruses in Library Softwares

There are many good anti-virus software packages out there.  MacAfee
offers several shareware versions. Check your local bulletin board
systems for the files.  CPAV sells a package call 1-800-445-1682 for more
information.  The CPAV program checks your boot operation in addition
to providing scan and sterilize operations on demand.
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