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the Restart button to restart using some other floppy startup disk.
“busy or damaged.” This is normal with the printing startup disk. Click
When you quit Disinfectant, you will get an alert saying that the Finder is
the Print command again to print pages 11 through 20, and so on.
print pages 1 through 10. After the first 10 pages have been printed, use
manual in 10 or 15 page sections. For example, use the Print command to
ImageWriter using this printing startup disk. We suggest that you print the
It is not possible to print all of the Disinfectant manual at one time on an
of Disinfectant, including printing.
With this printing startup disk, you should be able to use all the features
desk accessory to select the printer you wish to use.
The Disinfectant application should open automatically. Use the Chooser
Start up your Macintosh using the printing startup disk you just created.
startup disk.
locked startup disks. Printing to ImageWriters also requires an unlocked
Do not lock your printing startup disk. The Chooser does not work with
startup application for this disk.
and then use the Finder’s Set Startup command to set Disinfectant as the
After you have installed your fonts, click the Disinfectant icon to select it
screen.
also need Geneva 9 and Chicago 12 for the proper display of text on the
include at least the Palatino 10 and Helvetica 10 fonts. In any case, you
least the Geneva 10 font. For LaserWriter printing, we suggest that you
for printing. For ImageWriter printing, we suggest that you include at
startup disk, use the Font/DA Mover to install the fonts you wish to use
After you have copied all of the files mentioned above to your printing
disk space to make printing possible.
disk! Eliminating the Finder file is the trick which creates enough extra
Do not include a copy of the Finder file on this special printing startup
printer driver files.
System Software release disks for your copies of the System file and the
files named “Laser Prep” and “LaserWriter.” Use original locked Apple
file named “ImageWriter.” For LaserWriter printing, you need the two
appropriate printer driver files. For ImageWriter printing, you need the
containing a copy of the 6.0.5 System file, a copy of Disinfectant, and the
To solve this problem, you should prepare a special printing startup disk
enough free disk space for these files on a normal 800K startup disk.
space for the printer driver files and ImageWriter spool files. There isn’t
special startup disk. The problem is that printing requires extra disk
• Printing is possible on a Mac with no hard drive, but it requires a
patient.
while it does this preloading, which can take quite some time. Please be
these systems. Disinfectant displays a dialog telling you to “Please wait”
needs to do scanning from the disk. This minimizes “floppy shuffling” on
When you eject the startup disk, we preload the information Disinfectant
floppy drive to insert the disks you wish to scan or disinfect.
automatically. Click the Eject button to eject your startup disk. Use the
Start up Disinfectant from your Virus Tools disk. Disinfectant will run
Tools disk.
floppy drive. In this minimal configuration, you need to use your Virus
• Disinfectant may be used on Macs with no hard drive and only a single
person simultaneously.
• Disinfectant may be installed on a server and used by more than one
advice on what to do if you get an error message.
Messages” for detailed information on what each message means and for
message is issued. Consult the section in this manual titled “Error
for Disinfectant to properly repair such a file, an appropriate error
special cases, Disinfectant is able to repair the files. If it is impossible
possible for a file to be infected by more than one virus. In most of these
be run at all. Sometimes viruses only partially infect files. It is also
• Viruses sometimes damage applications in such a way that they cannot
scan.
problem is not serious. It is annoying, but it does not interfere with the
flashes an alert intermittently while scanning with Disinfectant. The
On a TOPS network, we have noticed that TOPS sometimes beeps and
servers.
Use this special startup floppy only for scanning System 6 AppleShare
that contains a copy of Apple’s “Desktop Manager” startup document file.
can avoid this problem by creating a special Virus Tools startup floppy
or hang during the process of building its version of the Desktop file.) You
to start up the server using a regular startup disk. (The Finder will bomb
server disk contains a large number of applications, it may not be possible
different kind of “desktop” file than is used on regular disks. If the
One problem with System 6 AppleShare server disks is that they use a
AppleShare server disk.
over a network. This is also the only way to scan the Server folder on an
problems. Scanning a local disk is also much faster than scanning a disk
to avoid file busy errors, insufficient privileges errors, and other
using the Mac to which they are directly connected. This is the only way
that you remove servers and shared disks from production and scan them
disks on a TOPS network. For the best results, however, we recommend
• Disinfectant may be used to scan AppleShare server disks and remote
Finder’s “Get Info” command to give Disinfectant more memory.
programs require even more memory, and you may have to use the
enough memory to load them and check them for viruses. Some very large
applications use surprisingly large resources and Disinfectant must have
minimum partition. The large memory partition is desirable because some
allocate the preferred partition and you will have to run with the smaller
running System 6 with MultiFinder, there is not enough memory to
“minimum” memory partition of 300K. On 1 megabyte Macintoshes
• Disinfectant has a “preferred” memory partition of 1000K and a
to make them easy to find in the report.
error messages and messages reporting infected files begin with “###,”
summary at the end of the report tells you if there were any errors. All
and errors on attempts to disinfect “busy” and “damaged” files. The
reports disk full errors on attempts to save files, out of memory errors,
• Disinfectant tries to perform careful error checking. E.g., it properly
in HFS format.
400K floppies are usually in MFS format, whereas other disks are usually
• Disinfectant can scan and repair both MFS and HFS disks. Single-sided
attention for some other reason.
used to notify you if an infection is discovered or if Disinfectant requires
• Disinfectant can scan in the background. The Notification Manager is
• Disinfectant is 32-bit clean and may be run under A/UX.
requirements, it will present an error message alert and quit.
later. If you try to run Disinfectant on a Mac which does not meet these
• Disinfectant requires a Mac 512KE or later model and system 6.0 or
window, etc.
the Preferences window, use the online help facility, admire the About
progress. You can read the manual in the Help window, adjust options in
can do just about anything except start another scan while a scan is in
some other application and the scan will continue in the background. You
and you can use application switching. You can start a scan and switch to
multiple windows open at the same time, you can use desk accessories,
• Disinfectant is “modeless.” This means several things. You can have
manual and take it seriously.
we do not handle properly. Read the disclaimer at the beginning of this
is quite complicated and it is highly likely that there are some rare cases
• It is very important to realize that detecting and repairing infected files
technical topics, and other miscellaneous items.
In this section we discuss various advanced features of Disinfectant,
åSpecial Features
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