Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!claris!jazzman
From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Resource Forks?
Message-ID: <10412@claris.com>
Date: 21 Jul 89 23:01:09 GMT
References: <12865@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
Lines: 17

From article <12865@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde):
> Actually, resource forks should make virus spread harder, not easier.  While
> one can hide a virus in a resource fork, the same can be done in a data fork.
> The thing is, since all code resides in the resource fork, and modifications
> to resources go through manager calls, it is possible to intercept these and
> consequently have a very effective virus defense.  People familiar with the
> Mac will know of the programs Vaccine and GateKeeper, which work in this way
> by monitoring resource manager calls.  Thus, it should be an improvement in
> the virus situation.
Acutally, on the Mac, code is in the resource fork.  On the GS, it
is in the data fork to be compatable with old applications.

-- 
Syd Polk           | Wherever you go, there you are.
jazzman@claris.com | Let the music be your light.
GO 'STROS!         | These opinions are mine.  Any resemblence to other
GO RICE!           |  opinions, real or fictitious, is purely coincidence.