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- Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT in New Zealand (Auckland)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.074045.20830@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:40:45 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <1992Aug23.234310.11845@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> <17999@acorn.co.uk>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug23.234310.11845@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
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- >>The best method of innoculation agains "Icon" is to save a file into
- >>each application directory called "Icon". (I use a text file that says
- >>"Innoculation against Icon virus"). Every app. on my 10MB HDD has such a file,
- >>and Icon is no longer a problem.
-
- >I don't agree with inoculation per se - but in this case alone it
- >would work. The only problem is that hard disc space is allocated in
- >large lumps - each file probably occupies several K rather than just
- >the length of the text file.
-
- ...bearing in mind, of course that every directory on my hard drive takes
- 14kB, and (I've tested this) the 30 or so bytes of my "Icon" files gets
- swallowed into the directory, so it takes no extra space...
-
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