Re: nVIR virus found in "Kill Virus"

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From: Steve Brecher
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1988 21:52

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In article <579@uva.UUCP>,  borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes:

> The virus checks for the existence of the resource 'nVIR 10' in the System
> file, and if it's there then it doesn't infect anything.

Actually, nVIR checks for nVIR 10 by calling GetResource.  Therefore,
Suitcase II users can gain the inhibition effect by creating a file containing
an nVIR 10 resource and keeping the file open with Suitcase II.

I am the author of Suitcase II.

--
brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)

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From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: nVIR virus found in "Kill Virus"
Message-ID: <7852@well.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 21:52:17 GMT
References: <UXWUfx928k-08X=WMv@andrew.cmu.edu> <223@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <579@uva.UUCP>
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