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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Subject: Re: Disinfectant vs WDEF (was: Virus in After Dark 2.0?)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 19:35:14 GMT
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jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:

>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.

And anyway, I'd rather not have a program automatically doing things to
my disk, even if it's a virus-protection program instead of a virus.
I realize that means I'm paranoid, but I was happier rebuilding the
desktop myself than I would have been being told by Gk Aid that it had
done something automatically.

Still, I can see the other point of view, and it's nice to learn something.
--
Jim Clarke  -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
  clarke@csri.toronto.edu  or  clarke@csri.utoronto.ca  //  (416) 978-4058