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In article <3716@charon.unm.edu> cn4gr8ag@ariel.unm.edu.UUCP (Bob Knudson) writes:
>I'm also interested in knowing what damage the sneak and nVir viruses do
>to Macs...MacUser had an article about them recently stating their 
>existance, but they didn't go into detail about their possibly destructive
>nature...

Information about nVIR, what it does, and how to combat it is contained in
the lead article in MacTutor April 1988.  (hmm, 90% sure it's April but don't
have it handy.  +-1 month if not)  This article was also distributed over
comp.sys.mac and info-mac in January, along with a Vaccination program for
curing programs infected with nVIR and an INIT to warn when it was trying to
infect.

This article and the programs should be available via sumex; if there is need
I can mail them (they're not very big either).

BTW: Vaccination 1.0 put out over the net neglected to show the Finder and DA
Handler as applications to cure.  Fix: replace the two with original versions
or ask me for 1.1.

-cbb
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