software. continuing to produce the very finest personal computers and system Computer for their advice, encouragement, and assistance, and for Last but not least, the author thanks his many good friends at Apple  code. and Steve Capps for ShowINIT, and to François Grieu for his SafeStart Thanks also to Paul Mercer, Darin Adler, Paul Snively, Frédéric Miserey  thanks everybody who has contributed. application has in many ways become a community project. The author supplied error reports, comments, and suggestions for features. The Since the initial release of Disinfectant, many hundreds of people have  of us could have produced individually. messages. The result is an application which is much better than any one This involves the exchange of many thousands of electronic mail to the working group and they reply with error reports, suggestions, etc. Internet. I send development and beta releases and technical design notes Disinfectant is an example of cooperative software development over the  code, but I could not have written the application without their help. copies of the viruses for testing, and analyze the viruses. I wrote all the enthusiasts helped design and test Disinfectant, edit the manual, locate This international group of Macintosh virus experts, programmers and  Vishniac. Stephan Somogyi, David Spector, John Stein, Werner Uhrig, and Ephraim Nakata, Dave Platt, Leonard Rosenthol, Art Schumer, Dan Schwendener, Robert Lentz, Bill Lipa, Albert Lunde, James Macak, Leedell Miller, Lance Cokus, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, Bob Hablutzel, Tim Krauskopf, Joel Levin, Mark H. Anbinder, Wade Blomgren, Chris Borton, Scott Boyd, Shawn  With thanks to:  assistance. Follow the advice contained in that section before asking me for detect, please read the section in this manual titled “Problem Clinic.” If you think that you might have a new virus which Disinfectant does not  do not know. over the phone and I cannot return long distance phone calls from people I Please do not try to call me. I do not have the time to do free consulting  include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you expect a reply. correspondence. If you send me a letter through the regular mail, please I enjoy getting mail, especially electronic mail, and I invite your  j-norstad@nwu.edu  Evanston, Illinois 60208 USA 2129 North Campus Drive Northwestern University Academic Technologies John Norstad   åAuthor and Credits 8 8