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From: userDJMA@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Douglas James Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: A possible new virus.
Message-ID: <1299@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 22 Aug 90 19:23:19 GMT
References: <60814@lanl.gov>
Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta
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In article <60814@lanl.gov>, rbc@lanl.gov (Robert B. Calhoun) writes:
>Files disappear from the finder display, but don't actually seem to be
>gone.  I can't access them, but an attempt to copy a file with the
>same name as a deleted file gives a "duplicate file name" error.  No
>disk space has been freed up.  The attack is concentrated on the
 
Sure sounds to me like some misbegotten soul has been "kind" enough
to play with the "invisible" bits on your files. Lots of programs
can be used to set/unset those bits (I think resedit will, I know
Disktop and other d/a's of similar functionality can).
Douglas Martin
Printing Services
University of Alberta
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