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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: CopyDoubler made GateKeeper flip (maybe)
- Message-ID: <aland.721159185@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 17:59:45 GMT
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- werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:
- > scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon) writes:
-
- [ Gatekeeper warned that Copydoubler "Violated Res(Self) privilege" ]
-
- > this is an incompatibility between CD and GK which (has been related to
- > me) the author(s) of CD is/are refusing to address. To the best of my
- > knowledge, GateKeeper's author Chris Johnson has been interested and
- > willing to cooperate with CD's authors to resolve the issues (and I have
- > myself been in the loop, trying to see this happen) but, apparently, the
- > CD authors take the attitude that they do not need to bother making any
- > efforts on their part to accomodate "unimportant fringe products"...
- > I think they are dead wrong and that (and other things I have noticed
- > about their products) had me conclude that AD/CD/DD is software to be
- > avoided....
-
- Well, as I have been informed, CopyDoubler uses an Apple-provided
- mechanism to identify compressed resources (travelling the resource
- map) which GateKeeper feels is "suspicious." Both are right, in that
- it is an Apple provided routine, which is being used for its purpose,
- yet some viruses might use that same mechanism to infect applications.
-
- I understand that Salient might have had an 'attitude' of the sort you
- mention in the past, but it is also my understanding that GateKeeper's
- author basically "won't give them another chance." Salient has been
- good about working with other software authors trying to track down
- any bad interactions & notifying their users when necessary (eg. the
- Norton DiskLight incident).
-
- I am definitely interested in finding out what "other things" you have
- noticed about Salient's products which had you conclude that they are
- to be avoided... (In E-mail if appropriate...)
-
- -=Alan
-