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From: borton@fwi.uva.nl (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More fuel to the WDEF virus fire
Message-ID: <282@fwi.uva.nl>
Date: 9 Dec 89 23:37:56 GMT
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hammen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert J. Hammen) writes:

>In article <1989Dec9.074425.18666@Neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes:
>>Yet another reason to use the Desktop Manager.  Too bad Apple is supressing
>>its use for other than Appleshare servers (well, at least strongly 
>>recommending that people don't use it).

>I was wondering about this. How susceptible is a Mac running the Desktop
>Manager? Particularly if the none of the attached HD's have "real" Desktop
>files? Not being intimately familiar with how the Desktop Manager handles
>floppies, wouldn't it still be possible for floppies to become infected?

The DeskTop manager builds and references its own database files instead of
the DeskTop file on volumes larger than 1.4M (FDHD).  So, the answer to your
question is yes.

I personally have been using the DeskTop Manager for months and love it.  I
occasionally lose a document/application connection, but the second try at
double-clicking works every time.  The speed improvement on file copying is
dramatic (imagine "Updating the DeksTop file" flashing by so quickly you
don't have time to read it).

-cbb
Chris Borton	borton@fwi.uva.nl
Mac Developer & AppleTalk Network Administrator, University of Amsterdam CS