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Idea for WDEF Innoculation (Mac)

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From: Jason Ari Goldstein
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 17:23
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Just like everywhere else the WDEF is thriving here at Carnegie-Mellon
Univ.  I recently removed WDEF A & B off of 15 disks of a friend of
mine.  When I commented to somone here about the virus they said there
was nothing they could do to stop it, except remove it once a machine
got infected.

I don't know much about Macs (Being a PC person) but if I understand
correctly every time the disk is inserted the they Virus is sread to
the disk.  Well, why doesn't someone write an innoculation directly
based on the virus itself.  Everytime a disk is inserted in the drive
it would be checked for infection if so it would remove WDEF if not it
would then 'innoculate the disk' with itself.  Eventually, WDEF would
be wiped out the same way it was spread initially.

The only problem with this is that it is a virus also, but with the
proper prompts (allowing the user the choice of being innoculated) I
don't think this would be a problem.  I know I would mind not ever
being infected by a virus that kills other viruses.

In the mean time, about 75% of the time I in a cluster I remove WDEF A
or B from either a hard disk or someone elses floppies.

Later...

me
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Jason Goldstein
Internet:  jg3o+@andrew.cmu.edu
Disclaimer: I represent me and only me not CMU, not my folks, not anyone.

"Thank the lord my PC came in the mail yesterday" - me

Over, Finished, Gone, Done, Out.
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From: jg3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Ari Goldstein)
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Subject: Idea for WDEF Innoculation (Mac)
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:23:51 GMT
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