Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: nVIR info (was: Virii at the U of I Message-ID: <541@uva.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 09:40:08 GMT References: <20200005@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <3716@charon.unm.edu> Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 26 In article <3716@charon.unm.edu> cn4gr8ag@ariel.unm.edu.UUCP (Bob Knudson) writes: >I'm also interested in knowing what damage the sneak and nVir viruses do >to Macs...MacUser had an article about them recently stating their >existance, but they didn't go into detail about their possibly destructive >nature... Information about nVIR, what it does, and how to combat it is contained in the lead article in MacTutor April 1988. (hmm, 90% sure it's April but don't have it handy. +-1 month if not) This article was also distributed over comp.sys.mac and info-mac in January, along with a Vaccination program for curing programs infected with nVIR and an INIT to warn when it was trying to infect. This article and the programs should be available via sumex; if there is need I can mail them (they're not very big either). BTW: Vaccination 1.0 put out over the net neglected to show the Finder and DA Handler as applications to cure. Fix: replace the two with original versions or ask me for 1.1. -cbb -- Chris Borton borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS "MesS-DOS programmers did it yesterday. Mac programmers do it today. OS/2 programmers claim they will do it tomorrow. [I don't believe them :-)]"