Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!eris!korn From: korn@eris.berkeley.edu (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System File grows to 10M Message-ID: <3729@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 2 Jun 88 00:36:04 GMT Article-I.D.: pasteur.3729 References: <6817@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <240@pedro.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Organization: What, me organized??? Lines: 22 In <240@pedro.UUCP>, benjamin_kuo@pedro.UUCP (Benjamin Kuo) said: > Sounds like a virus. These unknown resources are ALMOST ALWAYS viruses >getting to your system. (25 megabyte DeskTop file, in my case). NO, it does NOT sound like a virus. "unnkown" resources ALMOST ALWAYS belong to Desk Accessories and INITs that are living in your system. Occasionally uninstalling them didn't uninstall all of their resources, just the INIT or DRVR resource. Let me repeat, it is most likely NOT a virus which caused this. I've had this happen to me several times, and always the culprit was a prerelease copy of some program that installs or removes resources (certain early copies of ResEdit, the installation programs that occasionally accompany INITs, etc.). Typically what has happened is that the resource map is hosed, and I've yet to successfully repair it once damaged. Peter -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn