XRJDM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Joe McMahon) (06/29/89)
>Thanks for the above. I tried it and although all the copying and >pasting via ResEdit worked OK, no joy when I booted up with the new >system. The Vaccine icon didn't appear and re-infection occurred when >I used an infected disk on the machine. I have an application called >"Immunity" which is supposed to protect the System file from re- >infection by inserting nVir=10 code into the resource fork of the >system file. It doesn't seem to insert it into other files that could >be infected eg. Finder, MacWrite, MacPaint etc. Could I use >ResEdit to copy the nVir=10 code and paste it into the other files/ >applications? Rgds, Iain Noble You could, but it wouldn't help you any. What nVIR 10 does is act as a switch to the nVIR virus to tell it not to propagate. It doesn't really do anything else, and it won't help against any other virus. nVIR only looks at the System folder to see if nVIR 10 is there; it doesn't look at other files. I'll check into some things I have, and post back if I find anything that will work with the old System. Could you please drop me a note and let me know exactly what version you're running? Thanks. --- Joe M. P.S. If I come up with anything, I'll be sure to post it on our LISTSERV and will send it to sumex, too.