RE: CRAZY_WORMY_THANG_ON_ORACLE_DB ?

Hi,

On the DB side, i see only the possibility of having infected docs in blob columns. I have once loaded such a document, and client (me, fortunately) was alerted each time while retrieving that document via a browser. As a matter of fact, I had no antivirus on the server, i suppose it would have shouted danger while loading. I really have this problem also when client uploads a binary file to be inserted in the DB (but let us not digress).

Radu Caulea, TAFORA
Senior Oracle Consultant
www.caulea.com  

-----Original Message-----
Carmichael
Sent: mardi 30 juillet 2002 13:18
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

tell the user that he must ALSO scan his PC for viruses while you check the database. Then wait for him to find it on his PC... and do nothing because the problem is on his side, not the database.

you can also look up wormy-1 on the symantec site and send the user the information about the virus and the worm.

• Jackson Dumas <tjaros_at_webmail.co.za> wrote:
  > Hi everyone
  >
  > I might sound like I am a bit crazy or something, but here is my
  > problem. There is a customer who is having a problem when he tries to
  > open his report from application, which is running on ORACLE DATABASE.
  > The message he gets is about a Wormy-1 virus, he wants me to check or
  > scan the database. Well maybe I am missing something here, that
  > virus,
  > Wormy-1 is a word document virus, thus Microsft related and if there
  > was anything on the database then it should have affected the
  > datafiles on the O/S. I tried to explain this to this user, but hey
  > he
  > is very difficult. I tried to pass the request to Application guys to
  ...

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