jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (05/20/91)
Thanks to an error in Apple's Compatibility Checker, I've been deluged with requests for information on Disinfectant 2.5. If you have installed the Disinfectant INIT on your system, Apple's Compatibility Checker incorrectly reports that it is incompatible with System 7, and it recommends that you get version 2.5. There is no Disinfectant 2.5, and there won't be one! Disinfectant 2.4 works fine with System 7, provided you leave the Disinfectant INIT in the System Folder proper. Do not move the INIT to the new Extensions Folder. If the Installer moves the INIT to the Extensions Folder for you, move it back to the System Folder proper. If you try to repair an infected file, Disinfectant 2.4 may tell you that the file is busy and recommend that you "try again without MultiFinder." You can't turn off MultiFinder in System 7. If this happens to you, restart your Mac using the "Disk Tools" startup floppy that comes with System 7. Then run Disinfectant again. There is one small problem with Disinfectant 2.4's custom get file dialog which lets you select a folder to be scanned. Don't try to select any files or folders in the new Desktop level in this dialog. Disinfectant may crash or scan the wrong object. I am working on a new version 3.0 of Disinfectant which will take full advantage of the new facilities available in System 7, including Balloon help, full color icon families, anti-viral and other Apple events, icon dropping in the Finder, a new solution to the busy files problem, and other neat new stuff. Version 3.0 will also include a very thorough discussion of all the issues regarding viruses, Disinfectant, and System 7 in the online manual, and it will fix the problem with the custom get file dialog. I hope to release this new version sometime this summer. Again, until my version 3.0 is released, you can and should use version 2.4 with System 7. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University j-norstad@nwu.edu