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Article #26799Re: nVIR virus - you may think you don't have it...
From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1988 08:48
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1988 08:48
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In article <502@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) writes: > when opening a System File with ResEdit while booted from > that same system, a large number of resources INCLUDING 'nVIR' > don't show up in the ResEdit resource list. This shows up under MultiFinder only, and with ResEdit prior to version 1.2. > Also, note that the nVIR virus does seem to infect the Finder, the > DA Handler, as well as normal (APPL type) applications. The virus patches TEInit(). So every program that calls this trap gets infected. -- Matthias Urlichs CompuServe: 72437,1357 Delphi: URLICHS Rainwiesenweg 9 8501 Schwaig 2 "Violence is the last refuge West Germany of the incompetent." -- Salvor Hardin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!fauern!faui44!msurlich From: msurlich@faui44.UUCP (Matthias Urlichs ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: nVIR virus - you may think you don't have it... Message-ID: <240@faui10.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 88 08:48:14 GMT References: <502@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: msurlich@faui10.UUCP (Matthias Urlichs) Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany Lines: 18 Summary: Looking for nVIRs