[comp.sys.mac] TOPS and Interferon virus report

lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor) (03/17/89)

	Help!
		I recently ran interferon 3.1 on my TOPS 2.1 updater disk
and got a report back that virus type 003 was reported on the TOPS file. I 
know the TOPS file isn't your everyday kind of file ( however checking the 
the 2.0 disk I got no such report ).  

	report:

		Virus type 003 "SNEAK" Virus

			Hardisk:
				Systems Folder:
						TOPS


	from documentation:
	"003 	A SENAK virs. This is a virus that adds it's code to a
		common System folder file and changes it's type to INIT so 
		that it is run at boot time.  Type 003 is a generic "Virus
		sniffer" that detects if common Systems folder files have been
		adulterated in this way.  If you get a type 003 virus, ...    "


	I thought that TOPS was an INIT?!?  

	Perplexed


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lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) (03/17/89)

This is a known problem with TOPS/Interferon.  TOPS knows about it,
and it will be fixed in the "real soon now" TOPS 2.2.

This was hashed over the net a little while ago.

--- Alex
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trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) (03/17/89)

In article <2932@eos.UUCP> lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor) writes:
>
>	Help!
>		I recently ran interferon 3.1 on my TOPS 2.1 updater disk
>and got a report back that virus type 003 was reported on the TOPS file. I 
>know the TOPS file isn't your everyday kind of file ( however checking the 
>the 2.0 disk I got no such report ).  
>

This is a _FALSE_ report.  The new version of Tops does this.  Don't
worry about it.  Tops technical support is aware of the problem, and
my answering machine message (which you would have gotten if you had
called the number to report it) tells you about it too.

Don't worry - Be Happy.  It isn't a virus.  ;^)

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