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### File infected by an unknown strain of CDEF
the report:
unknown strain is detected, Disinfectant places the following message in
repair other strains which may exist but have not yet been reported. If an
In addition to the known strain of CDEF, Disinfectant will also detect and
version.
the INIT and the application recognize both the original virus and the new
The Disinfectant version 3.0 INIT fixes this problem. In version 3.0, both
the Disinfectant version 2.9 protection INIT (but not by the application).
the original virus. Unfortunately, the new version escaped detection by
There are only minor technical differences between the new version and
A new version of the CDEF virus was discovered in February, 1993.
you try to repair using MultiFinder, you will get an error message.
files are always ΓÇ£busy,ΓÇ¥ and Disinfectant is not able to repair them. If
must use Finder instead of MultiFinder. Under MultiFinder, the Desktop
When using Disinfectant to repair CDEF infections under System 6, you
for concern.
other tool. Any CDEF resource in a Finder Desktop file, however, is cause
you should not become alarmed if you see them with ResEdit or some
CDEF resources are a normal part of the Macintosh operating system, so
The CDEF virus is named after the type of resource it uses to infect files.
rebuilding the desktop. See the ΓÇ£Problem ClinicΓÇ¥ section for details.
As with the WDEF virus, you can remove a CDEF infection from a disk by
reports of problems on CDEF-infected systems.
viruses, however, the CDEF virus is still dangerous. We have had many
The virus does not intentionally try to do any damage. As with all
virus, it is not a simple clone of WDEF. It is a completely different virus.
Although the behavior of the CDEF virus is similar to that of the WDEF
Fortunately, System 7 is completely immune to the CDEF virus.
rapidly.
document files, or other system files. It spreads from disk to disk very
ΓÇ£DesktopΓÇ¥ files used by the Finder. It does not infect applications,
CDEF is very similar to the WDEF virus. It only infects the invisible
quite widespread.
virus. See the description of the MDEF virus for details. The CDEF virus is
1990. The same person who wrote the MDEF virus also wrote the CDEF
The CDEF virus was first discovered in Ithaca, New York, in August,
xThe CDEF Virus