NDG503@csc1.anu.edu.au (Nick Guoth) (01/08/91)
Hi, or should I say what is going on? We are using MacFortran on some of our Macintoshs here and just over the last few days, we seem to have contracted a strange virus or something. Now I'm never confident about viruses affecting us here in Australia as the protection software generally arrives before the virus. What is happening is that the icons for the Fortran executable files have turned into bunches of grapes. Now it doesn't seem to harm the programs but it soon will become a nuisance. We have SAM with all the latest virus definitions installed on each of the Macs. Can anyone tell me whether this is a virus or not, and if not what is causing the problem. Ta, nick ndg503@csc.anu.edu.au "Happiness is a piece of fudge caught on the first bounce" - Snoopy
6500rgls@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Randall S Geels) (01/15/91)
A common problem we see when using FORTAN around the lab is that some program which has the same creator id as all your FORTRAN apps is on the same disk. The solution is to: a) Remove the offending application b) Change the creator id of the offending appl with ResEdit then rebuild the desktop file (hold down option-command as the Mac restarts). This will get rid of your problem and cause all you FORTAN appl icons to revert back to the defaultMac application icon. Randy Geels