OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Tue Nov 20 06:51:16 2001

At 03:22 PM 11/20/01 +1300, Greg wrote:
\>I can't think of a way for a virus to jump onto a disk on a Mac simply
>by the disk being there, without any virus-infected program
>running. Unless a virus has attacked the Finder or the OS itself,
>which is a possibility, I suppose.
>
>But even then, the virus can't jump *off* the disk onto a previously
>clean system without running something from the disk, and that won't
>happen unless you explicitly tell it to. If there's some way for that
>to happen on Windows, then Windows is definitely more virus-friendly!

Weren't there some mac viruses that would attach to the resource
fork of a volume/file and then simply by opening the folder to
browse it the virus code would run?

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 06:51:16 GMT