CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) (02/09/90)
In article <3861@hub.UUCP>, 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (GurgleKat [Pete Gontier]) says: >From article <3574@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad): > >> I have absolutely no artistic talents. > >Ha! Programming is an art. That makes you a master. Seconded! Having somehow managed not to say this before, here it goes: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Norstad, I do not know how the Disinfectant project came to be. However, you and your colleagues have managed to produce the finest piece of protective software available, by a long shot. This much goes without saying, in many ways; there are simply no other utilities which perform anywhere close to as well as Disinfectant. But your contribution has been greater than this, much greater. You have saved countless hours of work, and perhaps tremendous amounts of money in the form of lost productivity, in providing so comprehensive, easy-to-use, and readily-available a tool for protection and repair of Macintosh software. You have saved a great many people from a great deal of anguish. I sincerely thank you, John Norstad. Your efforts have been deeply appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aside: this has been posted to a general-readership group in the hope that the rest of you out there will step lively and get in touch with Northwestern University and John Norstad, and tell them just how much time, money, blood, sweat, and tears Disinfectant has saved you! ------- Christopher Tate | Mercy (noun): | The infrequent art of turning Bitnet: cxt105@psuvm | thumbs-up on your opponent at Uucp: ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 | the end of your rapier.
jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (02/10/90)
In article <90039.150038CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET> CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes: > I sincerely thank you, John Norstad. Your efforts have been deeply > appreciated. Thanks for the thanks, but I'm getting embarrased. Please folks, if you need to thank me, send me email (I do enjoy it), but don't waste bandwidth. I do my work on Disinfectant for three reasons: 1) It's fun. I was born to hack, and viruses are fascinating. 2) It's made me famous, at least in the Mac world. That's definitely neat. 3) It's a public service. 3) comes in a distant third. It's nice that so many people have found my program useful, but that's really not why I wrote it. > This much > goes without saying, in many ways; there are simply no other utilities > which perform anywhere close to as well as Disinfectant. What about SAM and Virex? They're just as good as Disinfectant - better in many ways. (My program has a nicer human interface and a better document, but theirs have protection INITs, checksumming, etc). I'm trying to catch up in my new version 2.0. What about Chris Johnson's GateKeeper and Jeff Shulman's VirusDetective? Both are fine programs which do very important things which Disinfectant can't do (yet). John Norstad Northwestern University jln@acns.nwu.edu
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) (02/10/90)
[jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:] []Thanks for the thanks, but I'm getting embarrased. Please folks, if you []need to thank me, send me email (I do enjoy it), but don't waste bandwidth. oops, sorry about the bandwidth ... disinfectant is the _sole_ reason we continue to have macs at my research labs. the prevailing attitude from the powers to be at that time was some- thing like "if you can't control those mac viruses we'll have to close the mac lab to public access". running disinfectant as the default startup application saved the day (and cleaned up all the viruses)! []What about SAM and Virex? They're just as good as Disinfectant ... disinfectant has the right price ... []What about Chris Johnson's GateKeeper and Jeff Shulman's VirusDetective? even though GateKeeper now comes configured for most applications it is too "intimidating" for the typical lab users to deal with in spot cases. haven't tried VirusDetective ... we like Vaccine (never gets in the way) and swear by disinfectant! -dave- hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu Magnetics Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University