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From: gaynor@bat.cis.ohio-state.edu (Vampire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WDEF Virus and the "Doctors"
Keywords: Quick, Efficient, Thanks
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Date: 10 Dec 89 17:47:30 GMT
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	I just wanted to do someting that I haven't seen anyone else do, and
that is to say "Thank you" to John Norstad, author of Disinfectant, and to
all the other people involved in the "good fight" against the WDEF virus - and
all the other viruses that exist in the Macinstosh Community.
	I do consulting work for the university on a student basis, but being
one of the few people in my department with access to the Internet, I get the
news relatively quick, and am often the one who deals with distributing and
acting on this news.  I haven't read news since Thursday, and, logging on
today, saw not only the discovery of the WDEF virus, but it's analysis and
the counter-measures taken (in the form of Eradicator, Disinfectant 1.4,
and the INIT written by the man in Finland<?>).  Thanks alot, guys, for
caring enough to do all this, and to do it as well as you do.

	A comment on WDEF:  While I have yet to check all the HDs in the
office (and at various campus sites), we have been "losing" icons for
a number of programs/inits/cdevs stored in the system folder.  The beginning
of this behavior seems to coincide with the suspected "release date" of the
WDEF virus - namely, mid October.  John, or anyone else, do you have any idea
if this is yet another one of WDEF's symptoms?

	Again, thank you.

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