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Virus vaccines and warnings

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From: Amos Hornsby
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1988 09:53
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Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong with the following
inits/cdevs from comp.binaries.mac: 
I have a 2.5MB Mac SE with internal 20MB disk and at present am not
infected by any virus. I downloaded the Virus warning init to warn of
the nVIR virus and placed it in my system folder and on rebooting I
get a System error ID=02 there's no way I can boot with it.

I removed the warning init after booting from floppy and tried the
Vaccine cdev. It appeared to install correctly and was in the control
panel so I tried it out. First I tried adding and removing fonts and
da's with font/da mover, no warnings appeared (the vaccine was
switched on) so then I tried adding/removing resources with ResEdit
and still I could not get the vaccine to give me a warning dialog box.
Does this mean Vaccine doesn't work or am I doing something wrong?

Finally I tried booting with both Warning and Vaccine present this
time I didn't get the system crash but still no warning boxes. Please
mail me with any comments. Has anyone else experienced a similar lack
of effectiveness from Vaccine?

-- 
   Amos Hornsby
   STC Technology Ltd. London Road, Harlow, Essex.
             (ah2@stl.stc.co.uk <or> ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!stl!ah2
	     <or> PSI234237100122::ah2 <or> +44-279-29531 x2725)
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From: ah2@stl.stc.co.uk (Amos Hornsby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Virus vaccines and warnings
Message-ID: <647@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 7 Apr 88 09:53:35 GMT
Reply-To: Amos Hornsby <ah2@stl.stc.co.uk>
Organization: STC Technology Ltd,Harlow,UK.
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