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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Undefeatable Vaccine??
Message-ID: <10328@claris.com>
Date: 22 Jun 89 13:48:19 GMT
References: <12270@netnews.upenn.edu> <12273@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <12273@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes:
> ... [ leadin as to why you might want to make turning off Vaccine difficult]
>
> - change the file type from cdev to INIT, so it won't show up in the control
>panel.
This will (should) work.

> - make the file invisible, so the students can't drag it out of the system
>folder.
This won't work with System 6.0.2.  Invisible INITs don't get executed at
System Startup.  This was a change made due to the characteristics of some
of the earlier viruses -- they created invisible INITs that did their
dirty work.
> - copy the resources into the system file so that there isn't a separate file
>for the students to remove.
This might or might not work -- it depends upon how Vaccine was written.
>
>I haven't tried any of these, so I don't know if they'll cause problems 
>(although making the file invisible should be harmless), but they're possible
OOPS       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>options.  Whether they'll be any use depends on how resourceful (so to speak)
>the users are, which you'll have to judge for yourself.  And of course nothing
>will help if people boot off their own floppies.

-- 
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!