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) Lines: 32 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? ---- Alexis Rosen {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Writing from {harpo,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!alexis The Big Electric Cat {portal,well,sun}!hoptoad/ Public UNIX Best path: uunet!dasys1!alexis