Computers and Society Case Study The Virus is Worse than the Cure Page 10 March 1995 Don Gotterbarn East Tennessee State University gotterba@etsu, east-tenn-st, edu You are a faculty member at OldBoy PolyTechnic, a small residential school in MidNowhere. Your friend Fredda, in the computer science department, has come to ask your advice. You know her to be a reliable, level-headed and honest person. She reminds you of all the difficulty the campus has been having with very destructive computer viruses. She tells you of some new problems with viruses. You are surprised at this because you remember the director of computer services saying that computer services had taken some major steps against the spread of viruses on the campus. In all of the student computer laboratories the school had installed automated virus scanners; software they had purchased from TrustUs Computing. Whenever a disk is inserted into a lab machine it is automatically virus scanned. If a virus is detected the machine stops some it cannot be infected and it can only be reactivated by a laboratory monitor, who confiscates the student disk. Fredda is teaching a very large section of a computer programming class and has been
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The virus is worse than the cure
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