Virus Information

• What do I do when I hear of a "new" virus?
• Recognizing virus hoaxes (and chain letters)...
• How to handle the most common type of virus...
• How to check your diskettes for infection...
• What do I do when my computer reports a virus?
• What viruses will I probably encounter?
  (In the MSC we have encountered the following: Cap, Wazzu, Concept, Kompu, Johnny, MDMA, B1, Form, AntiExe)
• Updating your anti-virus software...

Reliable Information Sources

• Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
• McAfee Virus Info Library
• Virus Bulletin
• IBM AntiVirus OnLine
• ICSA Anti-Virus Pages
• Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) Bulletins