Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!syap
From: syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Vaccine Program from comp.binaries.mac
Message-ID: <1480@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 23:38:25 GMT
Organization: Gadgetland USA
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Keywords: virus vaccine questions

OK, I've got this neat little vaccinator file in my system folder 
which "helps guard against viruses, trojans, worms..." -- What 
will it say/do if it spots something fishy?  Can someone explain 
briefly how it operates without giving away the recipe for 
defeating the protection it provides?  I'm particularly puzzled as 
to how an INIT device could check for infections of APPLs as well 
as the ZSYS... Is it just a do-a-checksum-on-the-system-at-boot,  
or does it work as long as the Mac is on?

Please excuse me if this info was available but I missed it.  This 
kind of information is probably safer in the mail than the topic.  
(Besides, all of these virus panic messages, vitally important as 
they are, can be very unnerving reading while sitting at one's Mac 
keyboard!  A bit like watching "A Night to Remember" on a cruise.)

Thanks much.

                                   James Fitzwilliam


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