Re: Virus attacks on PGP

Thanks for the post. I think there are a few interesting points, and some of the things I do to try to make things more difficult for a potential virus. First, my secring is on a PCMCIA memory card, as is the versions of PGP, in this case DOS and Linux. A virus is unlikely to attack both, and when the memory card is in, the network and modem cards are out. Second, I think PGP is statically linked by default. If it isn't this shoudl be changed - there was recently a CERT alert about telnet services being compromised by switching DLLs. The code can also be cross compiled and burned onto a CDROM which would make it difficult to infect. zerucha@shell.portal.com -or- 2015509 on MCI Mail finger zerucha@jobe.portal.com for PGP key