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From: edgar@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WDEF virus:  Am I immune?
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Date: 15 Dec 89 13:17:28 GMT
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>If the WDEF virus moves from disk to disk in Desktop files, then isn't using
>the Desktop Manager effectively giving me a vaccination for any attempt
>at spreading the WDEF virus?
>

I use the Desktop Manager on my hard disk.  WDEF got into the Desktop file
there somehow.  I eradicated it, and it was back a day later!  How it
works, I don't know.  Perhaps this disk cannot spread it to others?

NEW QUESTION:  Does WDEF infect DesktopDB and DesktopDF?  They don't have
resources, so you cannot read them with ResEdit.
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  Gerald A. Edgar          
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