How to INSTALL virus checkers

Government Bureaucrat Virus -- Divides your hard disk into hundreds
of little units, each of which do practically nothing, but all of
which claim to be the most important part of the computer.

Mac: install

• goto: chooser
• appleshare
• EARTH_SERVER (requires your username and password)
• open the following:
  • Public export disk
  • mac
  • software
  • Virex5.9.1 Or whatever the latest is
• double click on Installer
  virex should start and ask you if you want to update (yes you do)

Mac: upgrade

• goto: chooser
• appleshare
• EARTH_SERVER (requires your username and password)
• open the following:
  • Public export disk
  • mac
  • software
  • Virus Definitions 2000-05-01
    Or whatever is the latest definitions directory.
• double click on Virus Definitions 2000-05-01 (or whatever the latest one is)
  Virex should start and ask you if you want to update (yes you do)

PC: install and upgrade

• goto: "network neighborhood"
• EARTH_SERVER
• open the following: export
• open the following: pc
• open the following: software
• open the following: vet
• double click on setup.exe
  Vet should be automagical from there.

Specific Info

Virus Info: Can I get a virus through email?

Generally huge bloated 'helpful' programs like outlook or, to a lesser extent netscape, which automatically run the program that the email asks for can get you a virus.

Virus Info: When you have a virus

• If you want to look for info yourself then go to http://www.altavista.com/ and enter "+virus +NAME_OF_VIRUS" then brouse the pages that it returns (search string for other search engines may vary).

Good general Links

• http://vil.nai.com/VIL/hoaxes.asp contains info on virus hoaxes.
• http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/ Searchable by virus name and with news of current outbreaks.
• http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html No longer maintained, but has good links to other virus databases online.