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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
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Subject: Re: Virus in After Dark 2.0?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 01:52:05 GMT
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davidw@jessica.stanford.edu (David Whelan) writes:

>My Mac IIci recently crashed...
>After a little bit of investigation, I found two new files in the After Dark
>Files folder.  They were both <1K After Dark documents.  "Good Vibrations (256
>colors)" ... There were again two new files:  "Space Toasters!" and "Stormy
>Skyline."  They are both similar to the previous files.  The creation dates
>and times are different, but they were all modified on 31 July 1990 at 1:33-
>1:34 a.m.

Those four files are simply MultiModule data files. They are supposed to live
in their own folder. Did you install AD from the master disk the way the
manual instructs? It is possible that AD tried to load these as regular
modules and crashed since they are not modules but data for a certain module.
I suggest you go back and read your manual about installation and reinstall
the whole shebang from scratch.

>I am using a Mac IIci with 4MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive.  I'm running System
>6.0.4, Finder 6.1.4, Multifinder 6.0.4, and MacsBug 6.2a7.  The following
>INITs and CDEVs are also being used:  INIT CDEV 3.0, CloseView, Easy Access,
>Gatekeeper, Gatekeeper Aid, MacroMaker, On Cue, SoundMaster, Suitcase II, SUM
>Shield INIT, SuperClock 3.8, Temperament 2, The GuardDog, Vaccine 1.0.1,
>Disinfectant INIT, and ColorDesk.

On another note, are you just a little worried about viruses? You have 4
separate virus checking INITs in your system folder which are largely
unneeded. Here at Dartmouth we have been reccomending Disinfectant INIT 2.3
and Gatekeeper Aid (for its WDEF abilities) and that's it. Vaccine is really
old and I question its usefulness at this point. Just the two described
above (along with an always handy copy of disinfectant) should keep the nasties
away from your Mac.

>Thanks,
>David J. Whelan
>Junior, Symbolic Systems
>Stanford University

Anyway, getting back to AD, I do not know if the MultiModule files being
in the wrong place makes a difference, the people from Berkely Systems would
know better than I, but it is a good place to start from...

Good luck.

-Andy

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