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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Save me from nVIR !!!
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Date: 13 Jan 89 13:38:45 GMT
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In article <17678@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
|As far as applications that can help clean up infected programs, Vaccination,
|AntiPan, Repair (recently posted to the binaries group), and ResEdit (if you
|can find nVIR resources easily) can all remove tthe virus... ^^^^^^^

I strongly recommend AGAINST trying to remove nVIR from an application
with ResEdit.  nVIR modifies an essential CODE resource (0); in
addition to removing all the nVIR resources and CODE 256, you would
have to open CODE 0 and unpatch it.  It's possible, but I wouldn't do
it myself while the various eradication programs can do it for me.

Also: Vaccination is used to detect attempts to change or add
important resources; it does not clean up any infections.

	/JBL
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