Re: Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid (Mac)

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From: Dave Platt
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 22:34

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YOOPER@MSU.BITNET (Carl_A.Fassbender) writes:
> In Michigan State University's public laboratory, we have run into
> many viruses including the WDEF virus.  We decided to put Gatekeeper
> and Gatekeeper aid on our system disks.  To protect these files from
> being erased, they were made invisible using MacTools.  Now in the
> control panel, the Gatekeeper icon does not show up.  Question: Does
> this mean that Gatekeeper is not active?  What about Gatekeeper Aid?

Apple's System 6.0 and later will not execute INIT resources which reside
in invisible files.  This was done to prevent viruses (e.g. SCORES)
from dropping invisible INIT files into the System folder.  By making
the Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid files invisible, you've rendered them
inoperative.

You can, if you wish, make the whole System folder invisible;  this won't
prevent the system from booting and won't prevent Gatekeeper etc. from
installing themselves.  For lab machines, this is often a reasonable
approach.
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