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From: flach@kub.nl (Peter Flach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Strange Finder Behavior - Help!
Summary: May be caused by the WDEF virus
Keywords: WDEF virus
Message-ID: <1250@kubix.kub.nl>
Date: 22 Aug 90 14:23:57 GMT
References: <1990Aug18.094323.13846@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1990Aug22.035137.6513@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: Inst. for Language Techn. & AI, Tilburg Univ., Netherlands
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In article <1990Aug18.094323.13846@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bhatlas@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Sunil Bhatla) writes:
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>Since a week ago, I have noticed that everytime I switch from one
>application or DA layer to another, or to the finder layer, the finder
>quits and relaunches immediately! 

Some time ago, we had similar problems. It turned out that our Macs were
infected by the WDEF virus. Remedy: rebuild the Desktop (restart while
pressing Command+Option).

Hope this helps.

	--Peter