Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!farrier
From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Resource Forks?
Keywords: Resource Forks, Viruses, IIGS
Message-ID: <33339@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 89 01:42:56 GMT
References: <6851@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <6851@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> jonah@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jonah Stich) writes:
>
>I wasalking to a friend, (a Mac owner) and the topic of resource forks came up.
>According to him, it is possible to put a virus into a resource fork, which can
>then aid it in spreading to other programs (I wasn't sure wether I bought that
>last bit). Anyways, is this a problem that us humble IIGS users may soon 
>encounter? I hope not....

	Resource forks do not lend themselves to the spreading of
	viruses any more than any other disk structure on a ProDOS
	disk (so you don't have anything to worry about).

Cary Farrier

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