Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: pandy@vipunen.hut.fi (Pandy Holmberg) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: help with mac "virus"? (Mac) Message-ID: <0007.9105081310.AA02449@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 8 May 91 03:13:27 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 37 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu billj@uop.uop.edu (Snugglupagus) writes: - -> recently, we've come across a problem with one of the macs in our lab. - -> we really don't know if it's a virus or not, but it does act something - -> like one. anyway, here are the symptoms: - -> - - there is only about 16 meg of software installed - -> - - both the finder and mactools report 38 meg used, 2 meg free - -> what we really want to know is: is this some sort of new virus, or is - -> our mac just confused? I wouldn't blame it on the machine.... I think that perhaps the directory information on your disk has been damaged and thus the computer can't use all the space that really is free. Therefore I suggest: Copy the 16 megs of software to floppies and format your hard disk. In the future: It's good to format your HD every once in a while. Not only does it give you more space, but the HD becomes much faster. - -- Tsaukki says Pandy - -- , "La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait." - S. Signoret =============================================================================== Andreas "Pandy" Holmberg Email: pandy@hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology Finger: pandy@spiff.hut.fi ===============================================================================