Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: chinet!ignatz@att.att.com Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Tiger Team comments Message-ID: <0013.8910021145.AA27888@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 08:23:20 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 14 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu The author of the original "Tiger Team" concept responded to a couple of critical postings with some rebuttals. As I read them, he defended the TT concept by emphasizing, several times, that the TT would be checking compliance with anti-viral policies. I ask, if this *is* the goal, couldn't the corporation provide a configuration test program that checked for the existence of corporation-approved software and methods without introducing a virus, and requiring all the intermediate overhead of special backups, etc.? Dave Ihnat Analysts International Corporation, Chicago ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us (preferred return address) ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us