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ΓÇ£make changesΓÇ¥ privilege to anyone except yourself.
only way to eliminate the problems completely is to never grant the
trusted individuals. Never grant write access to guests (ΓÇ£any userΓÇ¥). The
recommend that you limit write access to your shared folders to only
can prevent damage to their contents. To minimize these problems, we
inherently insecure, and no kind of anti-viral or other security software
problems with writable shared folders. Writable shared folders are
Virus infection over the network is only one of many serious security
Macs.
System 7ΓÇÖs file sharing, this has now also become a problem on personal
files in writable folders on dedicated AppleShare file servers. With
We have always had the problem of viruses spreading over a network to
its viral code on your Mac or cause any damage to your Mac.
folders. It will also completely block any attempt by the virus to execute
INIT will, however, prevent the virus from spreading to your non-shared
network, even if you have the Disinfectant INIT installed on your Mac. The
for files in the shared folder to become infected by a virus over the
the ΓÇ£make changesΓÇ¥ privilege with the ΓÇ£SharingΓÇ¥ command, it is possible
feature. If you share a folder and permit write access to it by granting
You should also be aware of a problem with System 7ΓÇÖs file sharing
Disinfectant protection INIT in your System 6 System folder.
proper way to protect against this problem is to install a copy of the
only be active, however, when you start up your Mac with System 6. The
this file can and will become infected by WDEF or CDEF. The virus will
Desktop file. If you restart using an infected System 6 startup floppy,
System 7 hard drives, however, often contain an old System 6 format
the Disinfectant INIT will not detect them under System 7.
system, and since the Desktop file viruses never attack under System 7,
INIT detects and blocks viruses when they first try to attack your
disks are immune to these viruses under System 7. Since the Disinfectant
spread, or cause any damage under System 7. Both hard disks and floppy
ΓÇ£Desktop fileΓÇ¥ viruses (WDEF and CDEF). These viruses never activate,
You should also be aware that System 7 is completely immune to the
discussed in the ΓÇ£Problem ClinicΓÇ¥ section below.
discussed in the ΓÇ£Quick StartΓÇ¥ section above. Rebuilding the desktop is
Restarting using your ΓÇ£Virus ToolsΓÇ¥ or emergency startup disk was
or emergency startup disk and try again or ΓÇ£rebuild the desktop.ΓÇ¥
is busy and recommend that you either restart using your ΓÇ£Virus ToolsΓÇ¥
If you try to repair an infected file, Disinfectant may tell you that the file
INIT in the proper location in the Extensions folder. Do not move it.
to the System Folder. The ΓÇ£Install Protection INITΓÇ¥ command installs the
Leave the Disinfectant INIT in the Extensions folder. Do not move the INIT
Disinfectant is also compatible with the Power Macintosh.
virtual memory, 32 bit addressing, and file sharing.
Disinfectant is fully compatible with System 7 and Mac OS 8, including
åSystem 7 Notes
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