🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <376@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>In article <581@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:

>>Last night, I was downloading some new programs, and as the finder was
>>rebuilding the desktop, it hung again.  I rebooted, and every time the
>>finder started trying to rebuild the desktop (whether I told it to or
>>not), it would hang.

>1) You were downloading programs.  What does this suggest?
>2) Why would the desktop need to be rebuilt after this?

>This sounds suspiciously like a virus called ANTI from France.  You
>should take several steps to determine if this is so, immediately.
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It might be good to add one point to the recommendations made by Mr. Woodhead:
if you indeed _do_ find that a virus was causing these problems, please get in
touch with the source of the suspect software (the stuff you were downloading
that was likely carrying the virus) and warn them that a virus is present in
those files.

Not only should we safeguard ourselves against viruses, but if we engage in
exchanging shareware/freeware for the Mac, we have an obligation to inform
others if we know of a file that carries a virus.  To know and not warn
others is tantamount to speading the virus yourself...

Jim


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Jim Macak  <lakesys!macak@csd1.milw.wisc.edu>