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From: jln@eecs.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Viral Resources
Message-ID: <10330084@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 88 17:11:03 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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I made a mistake in my "Viral Resources" posting.  nVIR DOES
infect system folder files other than the System file itself
(e.g., Finder and DA Handler).  I was thinking of the "first
prong" of the attack, when an nVIR-infected application first
infects a previously clean system.  Finder and DA Handle get
infected during the "second prong", when the infected system
starts infecting other applications and things that look like
applications like the Finder and DA Handler.

Scores, by the way, also has this behaviour.

Sorry for the confusion.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University

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