Is DOS under Unix immune?

[Richard Foulk]

>
>We are considering adopting '386 Unix in the lab, but I'm curious
>about something.  Are the DOS under Unix implementations immune to the
>usual PC viruses?  If so, how (in a nutshell)?  If not, is the Unix
>filesystem safe at least?  [...]
>

Yes they can provide additional security against that sort of thing, just
like pc-nfs.  The binaries can be write protected from the Unix side so
that a virus or whatever can't modify them.

I'm not sure if you can write-protect the operating system, if so that
would be a good protection as well.



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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com