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From: asqe-y-v-ssi@stuttgart-emh1.army.mil (Dale Jones)
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Subject: WDEF-A Response (Mac)
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Date: 6 Dec 90 04:21:27 GMT
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I would like to comment on Mr. Ed Murphy's comment that -
"You can get rid of virus by rebuilding the Desktop on your
hard disk (which is where it resides)."

I also had problems with WDEF A on my MAC SE with 100mb Jasmine
backpack hard drive.  After following several messages I contacted <
coherent!dplatt@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Platt) > and he advised me to
reboot with a "clean" boot disk then run Disinfectant on the System
folder on the hard disk.  I then installed Disinfectant Protection and
now I know my hard disk is clean.  This also immediately notifies me
about a possible WDEF infection on any floppy I open.

I'm fairly new to the Mac side of the house but with my short
experience I discovered that rebuilding the Desktop did not
rid my hard disk of the WDEF virus.  To my surprise I discovered
that Norton Disk Dr. and SAM both notified me of a possible virus
however, they did not completely eradicate it from the System folder.
Maybe if I'd have booted from a virus free disk, then ran
Norton Disk Dr. or SAM I would have had the same results
as with Disinfectant.

Please be careful with your very broad statement of "You can get rid
of virus by rebuilding the Desktop on your
hard disk (which is where it resides)."

Dale Jones
Chief, Information Center, 589th Signal Company
Stuttgart Germany