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From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Interferon 3.0 question (signature resource)
Summary: not a problem
Keywords: Paranoia
Message-ID: <53@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 88 19:28:07 GMT
References: <71@richsun.UUCP>
Organization: UCSD Academic Computing Services
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In article <71@richsun.UUCP>, kenk@richsun.UUCP (Ken Konecki) writes:
> 
> I may be paranoid, but...
> recently downloaded Interferon 3.0 from the local InfoMac BBS. Upon 
> examining it with ResEdit, i found a resource called =VIR (actually it 
> was an equal sign with a slash through it rather than a '=' ....
> Anyway, I did an open general on that sucker and found
> a message "...interferon application 2.1"
> 
> My question is, what is the purpose of that resource, and why does it say
> interferon version 2.1 when it's supposed to be 3.0????
> 
> Inquiring minds want to know.

That's just the signature resource for the application.  I gather it is
supposed to mean "no viruses" or "anti-virus".  Anyway, if you do a get
info (within resedit) on Interferon you will notice that the =VIR string
is the creator string for the application.  It probably never got changed
when the author upgraded from version 2.1 to version 3.0 - an easy thing
to forget.  Nothing to worry about, this time...

Wade Blomgren
wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu