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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: virus? Finder wants res(sys) priveledges!
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.214844.26651@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 21:48:44 GMT
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X-Kill(file): Steve Klingsporn.  He's rude and annoying and irrelevant.

boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:
>	The last posting was garbled, I see.  Well, the gist was that after
>upgrading to system 6.0.7, Gatekeeper consistently complains that applications
>are trying to violate res(sys) priveledges.  It seems to happen when they
>try to access a printer driver.  Finder, Hypercard, all do this.  If I grant
>Res(sys) privs, everything is fine.  What gives?  Disinfectant shows a clean
>disk, not even suspect files.  ???

1.  GateKeeper is to protect against unknown viruses wanting dangerous
permissions.  Granting permission left and right defeats this.  You might
as well remove GateKeeper.  (If chrisj says anything different, he's right).

2.  The latest, greatest versions of GateKeeper (including a fix for 6.0.7)
are:

GateKeeper 1.1.1
GateKeeper Aid 1.1

Get them, run them (first), live them.

They can be found at many fine ftp sites, I recommend the excellent mirror
of sumex-aim at:  wuarchive.wustl.edu (mirrors/info-mac/virus/ 
gatekeeper-111.hqx
gatekeeper-aid-11.hqx
 
and since you're there:
disinfectant-24.hqx).

-- 
Brian Aslakson

aslakson@cs.umn.edu
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