mitchell@crcc.uh.edu (06/07/90)
I've got a strange Mac problem and need help. Monday night, one
of my colleagues allowed a friend in to the office to steal Mac software
(using his old Mac disks, of course). After the appropriate cussing-out
and running-off, the machine in question (Mac SE, 20Mb hard disk, System
6.0.3) started acting funny. Symptoms:
a. We can't find any virii on it with Disinfectant 1.6 or 1.8
b. Suddenly icons can't find their applications
c. Applications are increasingly unable to open data files or
find them
d. The parameters of applications like Versaterm are unaccountably
changing themselves i.e. the baud rate changes itself or the
Kermit parameters change for no known reason
e. The options of the System and Desktop are unaccountably changing
themselves i.e. the sound bar is turned up without anyone having
done it.
f. There are more system bombs, and other disk and ram error messages
than I've ever seen before in two years of working with Macs.
We're to the point now of chucking months worth of data and reformating
the hard disk and starting over. Any suggestions? Any help?
Anybody seen anything like this before?
Mike Mitchell
Institute of Molecular Design
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston
(713)-749-4229
mitchell@uhrcc2.crcc.uh.edu