JEB107@PSUVM.BITNET (Jonathan.Baker) (12/08/90)
Netters...
Thank you for your overwhelming replies to my question of : 'If your supervisor
has a problem with the use of virus control programs, how can you still use
them and not have them appear at startup/or on the control panel?'
Anyways, here is a summary of the replies I received :
1. To keep the icon off the desktop at startup : Gatekeeper is easy to do.
It contains a switch in it's control panel which will keep it from
appearing on the screen. However, Gatekeeper Aid is not as simple.
Quite a few people recommended that you change the icon to the 'neutral
grey' that is the desktop color at startup (so that it just blends in).
I think this will work, especially if you put a tilde before the name
(like ATM does), so that it loads up LAST. This puts neutral grey
on neutral grey, and also puts it at the end of the row of icons, and
voila! it will disappear.
I have yet to test this theory, but I did some preliminary testing with
a 'generic' INIT that I keep around for such purposes, and it seems
to work fine there. Hopefully I will be able to do the same to
Gatekeeper Aid.
2. How to keep Gatekeeper out of the control panel : The solution seems
to be unanimous. Change the file type (using ResEdit, or Desktop) to
INIT, instead of cdev. this will convince the Control Panel DA not
to load it. I tried it, and this works great. Thanks!
Perhaps I should also note that most of the replies also gave me an address,
or told me where to look for the address of the gentleman who wrote
Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid. Quite a few told me that they would contact
my supervisor themselves, if that was necessary, to attempt to convince
him that this software was in the public domain, and it is a wise thing
to keep around. To all of you, once again, thanks for your support.
This story does have a happy ending : several people from our own
Microcomputer support center (here at Penn State) also contacted me, and
told me that they would call my supervisor as soon as possible to attempt
to explain to him what Gatekeeper was, and to give him a new copy of
Disinfectant 2.4. Thanks for your help as well.
Jonathan Baker
Consultant - Visual Arts Computer Laboratory.
Penn State University