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Article #9451Re: I'm not sure I believe this. (was Re: New WDEF Virus)
From: Ephraim Vishniac
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 17:16
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 17:16
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In article <1042@sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
>I havent seen the WDEF virus here, so cannot speculate on why GateKeeper
>would not stop it, nor on whether the virus might be just a badly chosen
>signature resource type.
A just did a quick tour of my own Desktop file, and found that the
Finder doesn't copy signature resources into it. Instead, it creates
resources of the same type containing just six bytes of data. Since
the virus is over six bytes long, I think we can rule this out as its
origin or original means of transmission.
I don't know what the six bytes of data are in each signature resource
in the Desktop. Anybody have a guess?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!kulla!ephraim From: ephraim@kulla (Ephraim Vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: I'm not sure I believe this. (was Re: New WDEF Virus) Message-ID: <32155@news.Think.COM> Date: 13 Dec 89 17:16:36 GMT References: <3277@hub.UUCP> <1501@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <4221@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1042@sys.uea.ac.uk> Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 17