Disinfectant

What it is

Disinfectant, a freeware application and extension, is one of the very best antivirus programs available for the Macintosh. It both recognizes and eradicates 25 Mac viruses and all known variations of them. Disinfectant also recognizes many possible unknown variations. It detects the viruses and, when possible, repairs files infected by the viruses.

Disinfectant also includes a virus protection extension (INIT) that loads at startup and continually protects your Mac from infection by any of the known non-HyperCard Mac viruses.

What you need

System 6.0 or later.

Installation summary

Open the SOFTWARE SAMPLER folder on the CD-ROM. Open the Disinfectant folder; if you like, drag the Disinfectant program icon to your hard drive.

The manual

Disinfectant’s manual is all electronic. Launch Disinfectant, then choose Disinfectant Help from the Apple menu.

Notes and credits

Disinfectant is free. See the last page of the online Help screens for important distribution and contact information.

John Norstad, Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University, 2129 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 

Internet: j-norstad@nwu.edu