Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!tut!santra!cs.hut.fi!juh From: juh@cs.hut.fi (Juha Hyv|nen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: MDEF & Virex 2.6? Message-ID: Date: 29 May 90 06:49:27 GMT References: <19327.2660D6C0@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: John.Starta@p90.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org's message of 24 May 90 13:41:29 GMT In article <19327.2660D6C0@stjhmc.fidonet.org> John.Starta@p90.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (John Starta) writes: +---------------- ! Both Vaccine and GateKeeper will detect and prevent the MDEF virus from ! infecting your system, but neither will remove it. Use Disinfectant 1.8 ! for removal. +................ To which I quote Chris Johnson (author of GateKeeper): " Gatekeeper will *completely* block the MDEF virus. The same is *not* " true of Vaccine, however. Vaccine blocks only half of the operations " attempted by MDEF as it tries to infect the System file. The end " result is that when you use Vaccine to block MDEF infections on " certain kinds of Macs, you'll wind up with a system in which the " default menu definition function can no longer be found, which means " that you won't see any more menus.... " " When Gatekeeper blocks an infection by MDEF, it blocks it completely; " no modifications to the System are permitted, so no damage is done. / (.__o .. /_/ __/ Juha Hyvonen ! / ! !/ ) ! juh@cs.hut.fi ------