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From: ccasths@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: nVIR info (was: Virii at the U of I
Message-ID: <6443@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 Sep 88 19:20:59 GMT
References: <20200005@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <3716@charon.unm.edu> <541@uva.UUCP>
Reply-To: ccasths@pyr.UUCP (Scott Hinckley)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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How about this for Virus protection - 

First, you assume that you start with a clean system.
Then you take your back up program and back it up.
Now, you log (on paper) every file you change and when you change it.
Now, when you go to do your next back up you tell the backup program to only
back up files that have changed (requires some sort of checksum and date
modified disk from last backup?)
When it finds a changed file it tells you what was changed and when it was
last modified.
You check this against your list before allowing the backup.

Would it work?  Would it take way too much time?  Just some thoughts.


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