Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!ah2 From: ah2@stl.stc.co.uk (Amos Hornsby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Virus vaccines and warnings Message-ID: <647@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 7 Apr 88 09:53:35 GMT Reply-To: Amos Hornsby Organization: STC Technology Ltd,Harlow,UK. Lines: 25 Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong with the following inits/cdevs from comp.binaries.mac: I have a 2.5MB Mac SE with internal 20MB disk and at present am not infected by any virus. I downloaded the Virus warning init to warn of the nVIR virus and placed it in my system folder and on rebooting I get a System error ID=02 there's no way I can boot with it. I removed the warning init after booting from floppy and tried the Vaccine cdev. It appeared to install correctly and was in the control panel so I tried it out. First I tried adding and removing fonts and da's with font/da mover, no warnings appeared (the vaccine was switched on) so then I tried adding/removing resources with ResEdit and still I could not get the vaccine to give me a warning dialog box. Does this mean Vaccine doesn't work or am I doing something wrong? Finally I tried booting with both Warning and Vaccine present this time I didn't get the system crash but still no warning boxes. Please mail me with any comments. Has anyone else experienced a similar lack of effectiveness from Vaccine? -- Amos Hornsby STC Technology Ltd. London Road, Harlow, Essex. (ah2@stl.stc.co.uk ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!stl!ah2 PSI234237100122::ah2 +44-279-29531 x2725)