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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PF Security Rumors...now the reality!
Message-ID: <1189@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 14 Nov 89 10:08:54 GMT
References: <3429@umiami.miami.edu> <1108@diemen.cc.utas.oz>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.programmer luke@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Luke Visser)
writes:
< In article <3429@umiami.miami.edu> GROSS@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross) writes:
< > Someone walked in one day and put their version of PF on all the student
< > Macs and all the staffworker's Macs.  They set the path on each PF to the
< > hard drive's root directory effectively letting the person steal everything
< > off of a hard drive.
< 
< Ok here's a solution that not a perfect one but one that certainly
< eases my mind and makes changing the 'public folder' somewhat harder.
< [...]
< (*get info* on it) and then turning it invisible (see below).
< 
Which will also stop Public Folder from working altogether.
INIT31 skips any invisible file because of possible viruses lurking therein.