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From: FXJWK@ALASKA (Jo Knox - UAF Academic Computing)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: HyperCard anti-virus script bad (Mac)
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Date: 16 Apr 91 23:36:19 GMT
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> mike@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Michael Kerner)

writes:

> Unfortunately, Bruce, if the script is going to spread, it has to get
> past the scripts in the HOME card of HC.  Passing the message directly
> to HC does not bypass the HOME scripts.

Untrue---sending the command to HyperCard DOES bypass the normal HyperCard
message inheritance path!  (Course, I know nothing about 2.0...)
jo