Show 4i wv?freOtrV' The Salt Lake Tribune - - 6" D15 Sunday January 25 1992 SCI-TEC- H I Bugs Get Boot But Rats Can Stay in Computers fy Rick Ratliff virus-fightin- Best known as one of the inventors of the famous computer programming language COBOL Grace flopper who died recently at age 85 had another distinction She was the first person to call a computer problem a "bug" She had some obvious inspiration It seems the first bug was literally a moth that had gotten Jammed inside her machine causing it to misbehave Dozens of years later the tendency to name computer attributes after pests persists Today there not only are computer viruses but even computer rats ' Jim Shaeffer can tell you all about the viruses He runs Jim's Consulting Services in Ann Arbor Mich When he set up shop three years ago he intended his business to be mainly de' voted to helping corporate customers install computer networks Instead he spends of his time helping companies get rid of viruses which are often programs that can attach themselves to vital files and ruin everything on a computer's hard disk drive "The part of my work is growing phenomenally" he said He predicts he will soon be spending half of his time on virus control room-size- virus-fightin- high-tec- h h g d best-know- Graphics Display Standardized 3-- D THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : ardNEW Co YORK — Hewlett-Pac- 6 ferent brands of computer workstations in networks and give all of them the ability to display the same s W9rkstitio-nare desktop computers favored by scientists engineers and other intensive computer users They often use graphics to display the shape of molecules or the structure of a new car for example k Sun Microsystems Inc Digital Equipment Corp and seven other computer companies have endorsed a technical standard for the way computers display graphics 5 companies only check g gram designed to detect only a few viruses when almost 1000 are known to exist Shaeffer is also curious about the sorts of sabpeople that invent such forms of otage "A lot of them are very gifted programmers" he said "But the only thing they seem to be trying to do is cost companies money" But while computer viruses cost some institutions money computer rats may be saving money for one It all began at Northern Michigan University in Marquette when psychology professor Charles Leith found himself with a special kind of rat problem The school's introduction to experimental psychology which he teaches requires teams of students to study the behavior of laboratory rats in controlled environments "Students learn a lot when they see a real animal learn" be said "but the process was expensive and time consuming" To make matters worse Leith like some of his students was allergic to the little beasts "And some students would form real emotional attachments to their rats" he said "So d Increasingly viruses are turning him into the computer equivalent of the Orkin man The only licensed Michigan service representative McAffee Scan one of the for California-basen virus control programs Shaeffer : computer-usin- for viruses once every six months or use a pro- - one-fourt- high-power- —m1141' - - 3-- D The companies say the standard should make it easier to link di!-- t I:1d Free:thon In ti!:3 It13 any busy office Meath r11421 delivers top quality kr t '-- i ycoj ciTza L:t en en Mei 117421 b rce:y C el:4 eztzno t7t :--r-- ' tli - o "11111111 11111111111111111111111 C g Illf Egli ak Mi ''114Ssi ' r v - IlinwilMilll 111111111111MEMENEESIMIII includes eight software modules that bbl e: integrated or installed individually and among separate computers Install the critical modules initially add others later II Ledger ReceivableInvoicing Payable Fixed Assets I Payroll ny: Corturare CZ LJEluip 4v N '''"-------- Allow --- 010 - 4"--- ' --- - -- - I ' ' C t'13 ' 11 3 - r '' ti - pl:- laut 1 ELI IITE4 tt e- - 272-042- Hours 10-- 6 oolnn-e- ' I eY It SERVICE MIDVALLEY DOWNTOWN it 5672 So Redwood 421 South 400 East 0994 lost 5321722 104 TOCK1111 CENTER 144 Sc 400 2 ALL LOCATIONS Inc SAT 10-- I ' ' N -- i' 04 '"::"Zt:' - INC - ' dilly 4720 So Highland Dr BURGOVIE COPUTERS1 i - lit' SYSTEMS LAITC (420 k )4' '1! 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