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Article #39350Re: nVIR in the System file...
From: Joel B Levin
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1989 15:51
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1989 15:51
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In article <37259@bbn.COM> franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro) writes:
|But their System file was also infected. Instead of throwing that away
|and getting a new clean one from a backup, I ran ResEdit and just removed
|the nVIR resource that was present in the System file. After saving the
|changes I ran VirusRx again and the disk was clean of viruses.
|
|Is it safe to assume that the System file is now completely rid of nVIR
|or is there something else that needs to be fixed or removed???
You also need to remove INIT32, if I am not mistaken. If you don't,
the next time the mac is rebooted >from that hard disk<, it will
become reinfected.
/JBL
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bbn!bbn.com!levin From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: nVIR in the System file... Message-ID: <37263@bbn.COM> Date: 15 Mar 89 15:51:31 GMT References: <37259@bbn.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) Organization: BBN Communications Corporation Lines: 18