craig@sli.com (Craig Woods) (02/23/90)
Situation:
Our site has WDEF (I think): our Mac is virtually useless - font's are
messed up, the machine crashes regularly when {leaving applications |
copying files | using scrapbook}, and the printer and modem regularly
disconnect from Fleetwood (the Mac). We do not have ResEdit or other
tools to analyze the System/desktop file/resources so we have no way
of knowing whether this is WDEF or not. (I sure hope this IS WDEF,
otherwise our system is REALLY messed up :-)
I've seen some questions/references to re-building the desktop as a
way of (temporarily?) combating the virus, but this has no effect on
the Mac's reliability.
We have sent for a Virex upgrade to combat the virus; Unfortunately,
we sent for it via U.S. Snail mail, so it may take weeks to get here.
As an emergency shortcut, I am submitting the following...
Plea:
1) Are the products Gatekeeper 1.1.1, Gatekeeper Aid 1.0.1,
Disinfectant 1.6 public domain software?
2) If so, would someone please mail them to me? (We are not on the
Internet, so I can't FTP from anywhere (can I?))
3) If someone does mail this software, could you include some
instructions for unpacking software from the Net? Our UUguru recently
left the company, so no-one here knows anything about unpack, unshar,
unhex, and all those other un-holy sciences. This task is complicated
by the fact that the mail will be received on a Vax, FTP'ed to a Sun,
and converted to Mac format via TOPS.
I am hoping to be able to get the Mac up over the weekend so that we
can publish our software manual next week. Mail explaining the
impossibility of any of the above steps will be appreciated, if anyone
can stop laughing long enough to reply (You want to do WHAT!?!?). :-)
Many thanks in advance.
Craig Woods
Systems Manager
Software Leverage,Inc.
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