Disinfecting Binhexed Files (mac)

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From: Thomas Neudecker
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 10:55

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I am trying to maintain a local Macintosh bboard [The Pittsburgh Apple
Business Users Group, (412) 828-8011].  The vast majority of the files
posted to the bboard have been Binhexed and or Stuffit.  Time does not
allow me to test each of the uploads submitted for posting on the
board.  But I donUt want to pass any viruses to those who download
files from my board.  I suspect that virus detection utilities will
just consider these files to be clean ASCII documents.  So running
Disinfectant to check and clean the bboards inbox is useless.  Does
anyone know of a tool that will read the files creator type and if it
is Binhex or Stuffit do the translation on the fly, disinfect, and
restore the file type?  A version for both the Macintosh OS and UNIX
would help slow the spread of viruses via bboards.

Tom Neudecker
Carnegie Mellon University
TN07+@Andrew.CMU

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