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Article #510Re: New virus? and other stuff
From: Larry Prince
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 16:21
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 16:21
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In article <847@rex.cs.tulane.edu> cleeland@rex.UUCP (Chris Cleeland) writes:
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.I think that what probably happened is that the first time that you ran
.Interferon, it got infected (this happened to me once when I forgot -- God
.what a mess!). So, Disinfectant did its deed, and cleaned things up. Then,
.when you ran Interferon again, the System got infected again.
.
.The reason that Disinfectant doesn't get infected is b/c each time it is
.launched, it performs a check upon itself and disinfects if necessary. Then
.it goes on with its other business (disinfecting your disks).
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.Maybe you should try running Disinfectant on your copy of Interferon...
.
>Chris Cleeland, Tulane University
Sorry if my message was unclear the first time...I *didn't* run interferon
prior to running disinfectant. I scanned with disinfectant 1.1, found
system, finder, and several applications dirty (nVIR.a), disinfected with
disinfectant, ran disinfectant again which claimed everything was clean,
then ran a *reliably clean* interferon which claimed system was still dirty.
I didn't take any chances...I threw system away.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!elroy!ucla-cs!prince From: prince@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Larry Prince) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New virus? and other stuff Message-ID: <25138@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 89 16:21:50 GMT References: <2278@ur-cc.UUCP> <838@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <25127@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <847@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: prince@cs.ucla.edu (Larry Prince) Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 28