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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: WDEF virus:  Am I immune?
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Date: 15 Dec 89 15:48:14 GMT
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In article <4249@sbcs.sunysb.edu> vallon@sboslab15.cs.sunysb.edu (Justin Vallon) writes:
>Let's say that it does get into my Desktop file.  It may as well not install
>itself, though, because the virus is the only thing that will ever open the
>Desktop file.

I seem to recall that, when using the Desktop Manager, it is necessary
to REMOVE the DeskTop file, or the Finder will use it.  IF such is the
case, and IF the virus is willing to create a DeskTop file, then the
virus has an easy mechanism to spread itself, even on Desktop Manager
systems.

But I've been wrong before... :-)


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