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In article <al196521.715456252@academ01>, al196521@academ01.mty.itesm.mx
(Juan Carlos Guerra Escamilla) wrote:
 
>  does any of you know when is the version 3.0 of the popular anti-viral
> program Disinfectant will be available for FTP.
 
I was planning to do an ambitious new version 3.0 of Disinfectant with all
sorts of new features to take advantage of System 7. I even made the
horrible mistake of describing it and promising to release it publicly.
Unfortunately, over a year ago, when I was about half way through the
project, I ran out of steam. Since then, I have lost interest in viruses
and Disinfectant and moved on to other projects (mostly networking stuff).
It appears that my attention span is limited to a maximum of 3 or 4 years
:-)

Right now, I'm keeping Disinfectant updated as new viruses appear, but
that's all.

I don't know when or even if I will ever get back to work on version 3.0.
The project is about as dead as it can get right now.

>   i've heard about the posivility of a new mac virus does any of you knows 
> any about this??? thanks in advise.

There was a big scare recently about a new "Aliens 4" virus. It turned out
to be a false alarm.

There have only been four new viruses so far this year. We haven't seen
anything new recently (since July).

Here's a list of recent versions of Disinfectant, the dates they were
released, and the viruses they recognize:

v2.6    2/22/92.    MBDF.
v2.7    3/23/92.    INIT 1984.
v2.8    4/19/92.    CODE 252.
v2.9    7/04/92.    T4.

Note that when and if the next virus appears, Disinfectant's version number
will increase to 3.0. Apple's version numbering scheme doesn't permit
mutiple digits after the decimal point, so I can't go to v2.10. This will
probably cause all sorts of confusion, since people will think that is the
big new version with all the new features I was promising a year ago. Sigh.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu