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From: jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: WARNING: New Mac virus (reposted from comp.sys.mac)
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Date: 7 Aug 89 12:48:25 GMT
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Another Macintosh virus named "nFLU" has been discovered at the
University of Minnesota.  This virus is identical to nVIR B,
except for the name change.

Disinfectant version 1.2 has been configured to recognize nFLU.
We recommend that all Disinfectant users obtain a copy of this new version.

Version 1.2 also contains a few other minor changes.  For a detailed
list of all the changes see the section titled "Version History"
in the online document.

Disinfectant is free.

Features:

- - Detects and repairs files infected by Scores, nVIR A, nVIR B, Hpat,
  AIDS, MEV#, nFLU, INIT 29, ANTI, and MacMag.  These are all of the
  currently known Macintosh viruses.
- - Scans volumes (entire disks) in either virus check mode or virus
  repair mode.
- - Option to scan a single folder or a single file.
- - Option to "automatically" scan a sequence of floppies.
- - Option to scan all mounted volumes.
- - Can scan both MFS and HFS volumes.
- - Dynamic display of the current folder name, file name, and a thermometer
  indicating the progress of a scan.
- - All scans can be canceled at any time.
- - Scans produce detailed reports in a scrolling field.  Reports can be
  saved as text files and printed with an editor or word processor.
- - Carefully designed human interface that closely follows Apple's
  guidelines.  All operations are initiated and controlled by 8 simple
  standard push buttons.
- - Uses an advanced detection and repair algorithm that can handle partial
  infections, multiple infections, and other anomalies.
- - Careful error checking.  E.g., properly detects and reports damaged and
  busy files, out of memory conditions, disk full conditions on attempts
  to save files, insufficient privileges on server volumes, and so on.
- - Works on any Mac with at least 512K of memory running System 3.2
  or later with HFS.
- - Can be used on single floppy drive Macs with no floppy shuffling.
- - Extensive online document describing Disinfectant, viruses in general,
  the Mac viruses in particular, recommendations for "safe" computing,
  Vaccine, and other virus fighting tools.  We tried to include everything in
  the document that the average Mac user needs to know about viruses.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
2129 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

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