software.

continuing to produce the very finest personal computers and system

Computer for their advice, encouragement, and assistance, and for

Last but not least, the author thanks his many good friends at Apple



code.

and Steve Capps for ShowINIT, and to François Grieu for his SafeStart

Thanks also to Paul Mercer, Darin Adler, Paul Snively, Frédéric Miserey



thanks everybody who has contributed.

application has in many ways become a community project. The author

supplied error reports, comments, and suggestions for features. The

Since the initial release of Disinfectant, many hundreds of people have



of us could have produced individually.

messages. The result is an application which is much better than any one

This involves the exchange of many thousands of electronic mail

to the working group and they reply with error reports, suggestions, etc.

Internet. I send development and beta releases and technical design notes

Disinfectant is an example of cooperative software development over the



code, but I could not have written the application without their help.

copies of the viruses for testing, and analyze the viruses. I wrote all the

enthusiasts helped design and test Disinfectant, edit the manual, locate

This international group of Macintosh virus experts, programmers and



endorse or support Disinfectant.

above, this in no way implies that those companies or universities

Please note that although we have included company and university names



Ephraim Vishniac, Thinking Machines Corporation (TMC)

Werner Uhrig, University of Texas

John Stein

David Spector, New York University

Stephan Somogyi

Dan Schwendener, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich

Art Schumer, Microsoft Corporation

Leonard Rosenthol, Aladdin Systems

Dave Platt, Snulbug Software.

Lance Nakata, Stanford University

Leedell Miller, Northwestern University

James Macak, The Double Click Macintosh Users Group, Milwaukee

Albert Lunde, Northwestern University

Bill Lipa, Stanford University

Robert Lentz, Northwestern University

Joel Levin, BBN Communications Corporation

Tim Krauskopf, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Bob Hablutzel

Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, Ohio State University

Shawn Cokus, Westhill High School, Syracuse, New York

Scott Boyd

Chris Borton, UC Berkeley School of Education

Wade Blomgren, University of California, San Diego

Mark H. Anbinder, BAKA Computers, Inc.



With thanks to:



assistance.

Follow the advice contained in that section before asking me for

detect, please read the section in this manual titled “Problem Clinic.”

If you think that you might have a new virus which Disinfectant does not



do not know.

over the phone and I cannot return long distance phone calls from people I

Please do not try to call me. I do not have the time to do free consulting



include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you expect a reply.

correspondence. If you send me a letter through the regular mail, please

I enjoy getting mail, especially electronic mail, and I invite your



j-norstad@nwu.edu



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