henry@att.att.com (09/21/89)
In article <0001.8909181146.AA03502@ge.sei.cmu.edu> dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gu rsky) writes: > When you finally get Disinfectant, and de-Binhex it and > de-Stuffit, make sure the diskette you keep it on is > write-protected!!! This is very important; a virus cannot infect > an application on a write-protected diskette! This is a good idea, but not entirely necessary with Disinfectant. Disinfectant is resistant to all currently known viruses and will refuse to run if it has been changed in any way. I have run Disinfectant on a System infected with nVIR A with SAM Intercept active to let me see when nVIR attempts to infect anything. Even when I allow nVIR to access Disinfectant, it cannot infect it! Another thing to note is that Disinfectant _can_ disinfect the currently running System. This means that once you have Disinfectant, you can put it on a floppy, disinfect the floppy, lock it and use it to disinfect everything else. Please note that this method should be used only when you don't have a clean copy of the System. In fact Disinfectant should only be used to disinfect when you have no clean master for a program. Henry Schmitt Author of Virus Encyclopedia H3nry C. Schmitt | CompuServe: 72275,1456 (Rarely) | GEnie: H.Schmitt (Occasionally) Royal Inn of Yoruba | UUCP: Henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Best Bet)