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Article #9199Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire
From: Robert J. Hammen
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 13:28
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 13:28
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In article <1989Dec9.074425.18666@Neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes: >Yet another reason to use the Desktop Manager. Too bad Apple is supressing >its use for other than Appleshare servers (well, at least strongly recommending >that people don't use it). I was wondering about this. How susceptible is a Mac running the Desktop Manager? Particularly if the none of the attached HD's have "real" Desktop files? Not being intimately familiar with how the Desktop Manager handles floppies, wouldn't it still be possible for floppies to become infected? Desktop Manager will be "officially" supported in 7.0. Too bad it's been such an "unofficial" hack for too long (though Apple is starting to come around - they fixed Finder 6.1.4 so that it now will close the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files). It works so much better than the "old" desktop file... unless you have a ton of downloadable PostScript fonts (file copies become very slow, until you eventually crash the machine). Robert
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!hammen From: hammen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert J. Hammen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire Message-ID: <1420@uwm.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 13:28:18 GMT References: <12044@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <3270@hub.UUCP> <3676@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <41538@improper.coherent.com> <1989Dec9.074425.18666@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: hammen@ddsw1.mcs.com (Robert J. Hammen) Organization: Personal Publishing Lines: 18