Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: coherent!dplatt@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Platt) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid (Mac) Message-ID: <0009.8912211225.AA14511@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 20 Dec 89 22:34:09 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 23 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu YOOPER@MSU.BITNET (Carl_A.Fassbender) writes: > In Michigan State University's public laboratory, we have run into > many viruses including the WDEF virus. We decided to put Gatekeeper > and Gatekeeper aid on our system disks. To protect these files from > being erased, they were made invisible using MacTools. Now in the > control panel, the Gatekeeper icon does not show up. Question: Does > this mean that Gatekeeper is not active? What about Gatekeeper Aid? Apple's System 6.0 and later will not execute INIT resources which reside in invisible files. This was done to prevent viruses (e.g. SCORES) from dropping invisible INIT files into the System folder. By making the Gatekeeper and Gatekeeper Aid files invisible, you've rendered them inoperative. You can, if you wish, make the whole System folder invisible; this won't prevent the system from booting and won't prevent Gatekeeper etc. from installing themselves. For lab machines, this is often a reasonable approach. - -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303