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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I'm not sure I believe this. (was Re: New WDEF Virus)
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Date: 12 Dec 89 04:40:29 GMT
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In article <4221@sbcs.sunysb.edu> vallon@sboslab15.cs.sunysb.edu (Justin Vallon) writes:
>I can see how Gatekeeper could be fooled because it does not distinguish
>between calls of AddResoruce('MSWD', 0) and AR('WDEF', 0).  Maybe GK should
>check what's going in, and have protection for standard resources, and
>executable resources.
Huh? This is exactly how gatekeeper works!  Maybe 'WDEF' just isn't on
it's standard list of code-containing resources.
>
>-Justin
>vallon@sbcs.sunysb.edu


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