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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: nVIR in the System file...
Message-ID: <37263@bbn.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 89 15:51:31 GMT
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In article <37259@bbn.COM> franco@bbn.com (Frank A. Lonigro) writes:
|But their System file was also infected.  Instead of throwing that away
|and getting a new clean one from a backup, I ran ResEdit and just removed
|the nVIR resource that was present in the System file.  After saving the
|changes I ran VirusRx again and the disk was clean of viruses.
|
|Is it safe to assume that the System file is now completely rid of nVIR
|or is there something else that needs to be fixed or removed???

You also need to remove INIT32, if I am not mistaken.  If you don't,
the next time the mac is rebooted >from that hard disk<, it will
become reinfected.

	/JBL


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