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- From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: CopyDoubler made GateKeeper flip (maybe)
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 13:41:00 PST
- Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
- Message-ID: <0105010A.i86nb5@salient.com>
- Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
- X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3
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- In article <aland.721159185@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes:
- > 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
- ...
- > 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).
- ...
- =================
-
- Any decent virus would bypass the resource manager entirely. All viruses
- written for the Mac today are crap and the people who write them are
- jerks who are incompetent programmers. Whew!
-
- Salient (FGS) products are compressed with the AutoDoubler Internal
- Compressor. These include DiskDoubler, AutoDoubler, CopyDoubler and
- related utilities. The stub code in them uses the system call (ROM
- trap) _RsrcMapEntry to find the location of a resource. This is one
- thing that GateKeeper objects to. Note that NO CHANGE of any kind
- is occuring; the stub code is simply asking where a resource is stored--a
- read only operation.
-
- Lloyd Chambers
- Salient/FGS
- AutoDoubler author
-
- =================
-
- Norton DiskLight Incident??? Norton DiskLight 1.1 & earlier had a
- problem in that it relocated system memory when it wasn't supposed
- to. This had NOTHING to do with any of our products.
-
- Harri Rehnberg
-
- for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com
- for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
-