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From: XRJDM@SCFVM.BITNET (Joe McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Invisible INITs - Don't (Mac)
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Date: 20 Dec 89 21:51:15 GMT
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Any file which is invisible will not bec checked for INIT resources.
This means that GateKeeper and GateKeeper Aid are *not working*
because they have not gotten to install their hooks.

System 6.0.2 (I think) was the first System to add this check to the INIT
mechanism; this was done to help combat the Scores virus's famous invisible
"Desktop" and "Scores" files, which contained INITs.

Summary: Make INITs and cdev's invisible, and any INITs they install won't
         work.

 --- Joe M.