of your remaining suspect backup floppies.

and floppies), then do a new full backup, and finally erase (reformat) all

we recommend that you first disinfect all of your other disks (hard drives

recognized by Disinfectant. If you suspect that your backups are infected,

programs usually write their backups in a special format which is not

produced by most of the various hard disk backup utility programs. These

Disinfectant cannot be used to check the backup floppy disks or tapes



them.

utilities, files are automatically decompressed when programs access

compression utilities like Disk Doubler and AutoDoubler. With these kind of

Disinfectant does, however, work properly with automatic disk



infections, you must unpack them and check the unpacked files.

utility. If you have such files and want to make certain they do not contain

they have been compressed, converted or archived by some similar

text file with BinHex, if they have been compressed with PackIt, or if

Compact Pro, or other kind of archive, if they have been converted to a

Disinfectant will not detect infected files if they are part of a StuffIt,



about this problem.

(the timing between notes is not correct). There is nothing we can do

versions of the Apple system software, the tune is not played correctly

The Disinfectant about box plays a tune. On some Mac models with some



later.

If you use INITPicker, check to make certain that you have version 2.0 or

not properly deal with INITs whose names begin with a special character.

INITPicker earlier than version 2.0. The earlier versions of INITPicker did

The Disinfectant INIT is incompatible with versions of Microseed’s



have version 2.0.6 or later.

Speed Beep to refuse to work. If you use Speed Beep, make certain you

“Speed Beep” earlier than version 2.0.6. The incompatibility causes

The Disinfectant INIT is incompatible with versions of Robert Mathew’s



certain you have version 1.5 or later.

can cause crashes and other problems. If you use Greg’s Buttons, make

with versions of “Greg’s Buttons” earlier than 1.5. The incompatibility

Both the Disinfectant program and the Disinfectant INIT are incompatible



Cobra driver contained an error which caused problems with Disinfectant.

version 1.1.3 or later of the Cobra disk driver. Earlier versions of the

If you have a Rodime Cobra disk drive, make certain that you are using



problems involve incompatibilities with older versions of other software.

This section lists some known problems with Disinfectant. Many of these








åKnown Problems



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