Article View: comp.sys.mac
Article #3935Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES!
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 19:44
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1989 19:44
21 lines
1489 bytes
1489 bytes
In article <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>, andrew@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Andrew Esh) writes: > > After downloading a number of files and playing aournd with them, > I started MandelZot. It put up a dialog saying that the 'Safety Seal' had > been broken, and that there was a possible viral infection. "Disinfectant" > showed me that there was a medium sized infection on my hard disk, starting > with the Finder. It occurred on the same day I downloaded from mac.binaries, > and I don't think I ran any other software. Odd. I downloaded MandelZot from comp.binaries.mac, and it seems quite happy. GateKeeper didn't even hiccup, and Disinfectant doesn't show any problem. My guess is that something else that you downloaded was infected, not MandelZot... -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1432@intercon.UUCP>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.uu.netReferences:
<20982.24F8D5E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <697@anagld.UUCP> <123914@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <945@mrsvr.UUCP> <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.uu.net From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: VIRUS OUTBREAK in MAC BINARIES! Message-ID: <1432@intercon.UUCP> Date: 1 Sep 89 19:44:07 GMT References: <20982.24F8D5E1@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <697@anagld.UUCP> <123914@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <945@mrsvr.UUCP> <107@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 21