Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Kreme
From: Kreme@cup.portal.com (Lewis Kreme Butler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ShrinkIt
Message-ID: <14964@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 02:47:31 GMT
References: <8902190936.AA09396@crash.cts.com>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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|I'm considering removing the virus detectors from ShrinkIt -- the reason being
|that they can be triggered too easily.  The virus detectors work on the
|principle of knowing what the full or partial pathname provided at $280 is. 
|Unfortunately, sometimes there is no default pathname provided at $280 by a
|particular selector, in which case I'm unable to "find" the SYS file, shrinkit
|and examine it for changes.  Should I leave the detectors in, or take them
|out?


Well, I think you ought to leave them in with an explination of how they
work so that users won't flip out when they get a virus detection from it
all the time.  Can't you just scan all available devices for the filename?

No .sig yet, sorry!