wwl90321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (12/14/88)
I was looking at different files on my HD and was looking in particular at file types and creators. I noticed that my desktop is of creator ERIK and of type FNDR, I noticed that my other system stuff is MACS. I thought that resources of type ERIC were the bad guys.. Is this ERIK something new? I have not read too much on viruses but have vaccine. I have to turn it off to compile programs though and sometimes forget to turn it on. If this ERIK creator type means something can someone send me mail telling me what and what I should do if anything. Thanx! q c .s
dean@mars.Berkeley.EDU (R. Drew Dean) (12/16/88)
In article <111900026@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wwl90321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >I was looking at different files on my HD and was looking in >particular at file types and creators. I noticed that my >desktop is of creator ERIK and of type FNDR, I noticed >that my other system stuff is MACS. I thought that I think we need to post a monthly article summarizing the state of Mac viruses and what's normal and what's not. For the record, creator ERIK and type FNDR are the _correct_ types and creators for the desktop file. They've been this way ever since System 4.1 (to my personal knowledge, that's what my SE came with), and as far as I know, have been this ever since System 1.0 from Jan. 1984.... Sorry if I sound a little rude, but this is the second false virus alarm in a week. Please people, viruses, while a threat, are _not_ all that common. If you haven't acquired software from random places, you are not at a great risk...I realize that one virus snuck into comp.binaries.mac, but that was many months ago, before Vaccine. It shouldn't be too hard to prevent infection: if you aren't sure where a piece of software has been, run it from a locked volume, preferably a floppy, with your hard disk NOT on-line (on an SE hold down something like shift-command-option-delete [sorry, I forget exactly which keys you need, I know delete is in there, and shift, I forget whether or not you need option, and I'm not rebooting in the middle of typing this to find out :-)] to prevent your internal hard disk from mounting.) Please note that while I up/download software from public systems pretty extensively (I average sending about 200K a week between here and UC Berkeley) I have NEVER been infected, and I don't intend to become infected. I do run vaccine, and recommend it to all worried about viruses...No known (not to say there isn't one) virus gets around vaccine. Now back to the regular comp.sys.mac fair..... Drew Dean Internet: dean@xcssun.berkeley.edu UUCP: ...!ucbvax!xcssun!dean FROM Disclaimers IMPORT StandardDisclaimer;