Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!dasys1!alexis
From: alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Virii at U of I part II
Message-ID: <6628@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 88 01:07:45 GMT
References: <20200006@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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In article <20200006@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> crouse@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> Virii at the U of I  part II
>   Thanks for all the responses to note 230.
>   We are lead to belive that the Sneak virus that interferon 2.24
>   is showing is not a virus at all, but a bug in release 6.0 from
>   Apple.

This is a virtual certainty. I believe this matter was discussed a month
or two ago.

>   We have an infected MAC-SE with nVir now and are using Resedit
>   to determine what is going on with the code structure. A symptom
>   of nVIR is,the system locking up and problems with the Finder.
>   The problem with Interferon is that it will not ckeck HFS disks
>   so we run Kill Scores also.

This is not correct. I was just infected last week; Interferon 2.0 (earlier
than the version you use) has no problems with HFS on either hard disks or
floppies. Did you mean MFS?

At any rate, before you waste a lot of time playing with nVIR I suggest you
read Chris Borton's excelent article on it; he just wrote about it recently,
and mentioned where you could get a copy.

One thing to check- what is the size of the CODE 256 resources created by
nVIR?

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