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From: lev@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev)
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Subject: Re: Disinfectant 2.x
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Date: 10 May 91 00:07:53 GMT
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In article <91129.103215JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes...
>Our company has Disinfectant 2.4, and as of last night, this is the
>same version that is on the sumex-aim.stanford.edu FTP site.  I have
>heard, though, that there is a version 2.6.  The reason we need the
>update is that we are experiencing problems that our Mac gurus think
>sound suspiciously like a virus; files being increasingly corrupted,
>no problems found by Norton Utils, file crashes, corrupted resource
>forks...    Disinfectant 2.4 and SAM have not found anything (though
>we can't use SAM all the time because it doesn't run under 7.0, and
>we are developing software under 7.0.)
>If there is a newer version of Disinfectant available, could someone
>point us the way to it?  Thanks much!!!

I've not heard of any version of Disinfectant beyond 2.4, and just recently
read that John Norstad's not considering an update to handle the new "HC" (or
whatever people call it) virus that tangles the data fork of HyperCard stacks
because it's a simple case of scripting.

Have you tried backing up your hard disk, reinitializing it, and restoring
your files?  Also, you might want to zap your Mac's PRAM (a "secret" taught
to several of us here by the local support contractor): 
     1) select the Control Panel while simultaneously holding down 
	SHIFT, OPTION and CONTROL and answer "yes" 
     2) restart the Mac while holding down OPTION and CONTROL (i.e., you
	want to rebuild the desktop file) and answer "yes"
     3) repeat step 1
     4) restart the Mac normally

This may or may not help, but it shouldn't hurt anything (but you *will* lose
info in the information box at the bottom of the "Info" window when you choose
"Get Info" from the FILE menu...)

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