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From: TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET (Thomas B. Collins, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: RE: Tiger Teams
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Date: 30 Sep 89 18:39:00 GMT
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Another thought on the Tiger Teams...  It doesn't make much sense to me.
If I don't add any new software to my system at work, I'm not going to
worry about viruses.  Say I get my new system, put all the software on
it, and run a few virus scanners that turn up nothing.  I then run all
applications from my hard drive, and don't use any floppy disks.  It
wouldn't make sense for me to check my hard drive every day for viruses,
because they don't just pop up from nowhere.

If I did add software to my system, I would check it for viruses before
adding it.  I think it would make more sense for the Tiger Teams to come
in in the middle of the day, ask you to please save your work, and then
run a virus checker on your system.  If anything is found, you are
"cited" as letting a virus into your system.  If you're clean, you go
back to work, and the Tiger Team moves on.

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Tom "Shark" Collins       Since ICS is comprised of 2 people, my views
tbc101@psuvm.psu.edu      are the opinion of at least 50% of the company.