Disinfectant 2.0

[David Edmondson]

Disinfectant 2.0 is a fine program and seems to work under A/UX 2.0
although I don't have any spare viruses to try it on at the
moment (please don't send me any).  The Disinfectant INIT,
however, is not A/UX 2.0 compatible and bombs Mac sessions.
The INIT can only be installed by root, other users get an "out
of memory" error.  Removing the INIT is difficult because its
name begins with a "diamond" character which tends to get
translated to "W".  A suitable incantation is:

cd /mac/sys/Sys*
find . -name "*Disinfectant*" -exec rm -i {} \;

I have mailed John Norstad about this problem.  It would be very
handy to have something like the Disinfectant INIT under A/UX
since it seems likely that some viruses will "work" on the
pseudo Mac in spite of Unix file protection etc., I'm sure John
would be grateful for assistance from the A/UX team.


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