bjornl@milton.u.washington.edu (Bjorn Levidow) (10/13/90)
HyperCard has been crashing on me lately for no apparant reason, and I read in the Disinfectant 2.0 on-line manual that there is a HC virus. Has anybody been infected? Does anybody know what the symptoms are? What the vector is? How to get rid of it if I have it? Any and all information will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. =============================================================================== \ Bjorn Levidow | Romance is unreal...it's the essence / \ Dept. of Psychology | of life, but not the reality of it. / \ University of Washington | ---Robyn Hitchcock / \ Seattle, WA 98195 | It's mine! All mine! / \ bjornl@u.washington.edu | I'm independently thoughtful! / ===============================================================================
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (10/14/90)
In article <9113@milton.u.washington.edu> bjornl@milton.u.washington.edu (Bjorn Levidow) writes: >HyperCard has been crashing on me lately for no apparant reason, and >I read in the Disinfectant 2.0 on-line manual that there is a HC virus. >Has anybody been infected? Does anybody know what the symptoms are? >What the vector is? How to get rid of it if I have it? Any and all >information will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. The only HyperCard-specific virus I can recall was something called "Dukakis". It appeared around the time of the 1988 elections and was written entirely in HyperTalk. It didn't do anything particularly nasty; it just wrote "Vote for Dukakis!" or somesuch into the message box periodically [I guess it depends on your political leanings as to whether or not that's "nasty" :)] It certainly wouldn't cause HyperCard to crash. To excise this virus, open the questionable stack and type searchscript Dukakis into the message box. If you find any, delete the offending scripts. I don't think this is your problem, however. What are the specifics of your crashing problem? chaz -- Canadian Professors discover lost city of Moscow. clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone