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Article #9136Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire
From: Tom Arnold
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 19:04
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 19:04
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In article <3676@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes: >[...] Eradicator! reportedly bombs on 68000s, so I instead >looked in his Desktop file with ResEdit. It *did* have a "WDEF = 0" >resource. He didn't have any font menu problems. Once the Desktop was >rebuilt, WDEF was gone. I bounced this idea off of John, now I'm curious about what others think. Instead of trying to obtain a copy of Eradicator!, wouldn't it be simpler to just rebuild the DeskTop at boot (ie: hold down the option & command keys during startup)?? Maybe this is too simplistic... John pointed out that there are some drawbacks, like losing GetInfo information for example. When rebuilding the DeskTop it only keeps things it "thinks" it'll use, so sometimes one can lose icons some applications did use. This results in a generic icon in place of the original. Double edged sword, I guess. >John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) >ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center / 494-1787 Tom Arnold !(a Mac Specialist) Purdue University gwk@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!gwk From: gwk@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tom Arnold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire Message-ID: <5737@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 8 Dec 89 19:04:56 GMT References: <12044@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <3270@hub.UUCP> <3676@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: gwk@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tom Arnold) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 20