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From: craig@lakesys.UUCP (Craig Stodolenak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Viruses (was: Re: The ultimate fix!!!)
Message-ID: <1109@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 01:36:09 GMT
References: <8810062045.AA04638@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <12643@oberon.USC.EDU> <814@super.ORG>
Reply-To: craig@lakesys.UUCP (Craig Stodolenak)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <814@super.ORG> rminnich@duper.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>Funny you should mention this. There
>is a program called 'vaccine' for the MAC which 
>will claim that minicad is a virus!
>It confuses the copy protection of minicad with 
>virus code. 

_Vaccine_ is a free antiviral CDEV written by Don Brown of CE Software.  It
doesn't doesn't inspect program code in any way.  Whenever a program attempts
to install or modify significant resources (CODE< INIT, CDEV, RDEV, or nVIR),
_Vaccine_ halts execution and allows the user to either abort or continue.

If the copy-protection code attempts to modify or install any resources, then
_Vaccine_ would yell and holler.  :-)


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