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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Disinfectant vs WDEF (was: Virus in After Dark 2.0?)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 03:34:26 GMT
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In article <0bC9O_K00Vpe0LA24r@andrew.cmu.edu> vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu 
(Vincent M. Del Vecchio) writes:

> Gatekeeper Aid stops and *removes* WDEF.  Disinfectant Init forces you
> to use Disinfectant to get rid of it.

Actually, in the document I recommend that users of the Disinfectant INIT 
rebuild the desktop file to get rid of WDEF when the INIT discovers a WDEF 
infection on a floppy.  Only takes a few seconds, and it's much quicker 
and easier than running Disinfectant.  Losing Get Info comments is the 
only disadvantage.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu