mmccann@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike McCann) (11/16/89)
I encountered a problem with a Mac Plus (Everex 20Mb HD, 6.0.3, 2.5Mb RAM, QuickMail, Netway1000, SAM). The system and finder were not visible but the machine was still bootable (some software failed to run or crashed). When I used ResEdit from a locked disk I found two DeskTops but no system or finder anywhere. The person in charge of Macintoshs for that area said he reinstalled all the software but the problem reoccurs. I immediately thought of a virus and scanned all the disks and the Mac Plus with Disinfectant1.2 but found nothing (I did find two file with damaged resource forks on the Mac Plus but these were documents). If anyone can offer any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. (PS- I personally used Everex's HD formatter to erase the drive and then installed new, known-clean system software on the Mac Plus with his software (he didn't have known-clean copies of the software) and I'm now waiting to see if strange things happen again). Thanks - -- Mike McCann (803) 656-3714 Internet = mmccann@hubcap.clemson.edu Poole Computer Center (Box P-21) UUCP = gatech!hubcap!mmccann Clemson University Bitnet = mmccann@clemson.bitnet Clemson, S.C. 29634-2803 DISCLAIMER = I speak only for myself.
dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky) (11/18/89)
I've seen this problem before, and it is not a symptom of any of the known Mac viruses. While I never found what the specific problem was, my speculation was that it was some defect in the media. I suggest you backup the data files on your disk, reformat it, and reinstall the software.