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the Restart button to restart using some other floppy startup disk.

“busy or damaged.” This is normal with the printing startup disk. Click

When you quit Disinfectant, you will get an alert saying that the Finder is



the Print command again to print pages 11 through 20, and so on.

print pages 1 through 10. After the first 10 pages have been printed, use

manual in 10 or 15 page sections. For example, use the Print command to

ImageWriter using this printing startup disk. We suggest that you print the

It is not possible to print all of the Disinfectant manual at one time on an



of Disinfectant, including printing.

With this printing startup disk, you should be able to use all the features



desk accessory to select the printer you wish to use.

The Disinfectant application should open automatically. Use the Chooser

Start up your Macintosh using the printing startup disk you just created.



startup disk.

locked startup disks. Printing to ImageWriters also requires an unlocked

Do not lock your printing startup disk. The Chooser does not work with



startup application for this disk.

and then use the Finder’s Set Startup command to set Disinfectant as the

After you have installed your fonts, click the Disinfectant icon to select it



screen.

also need Geneva 9 and Chicago 12 for the proper display of text on the

include at least the Palatino 10 and Helvetica 10 fonts. In any case, you

least the Geneva 10 font. For LaserWriter printing, we suggest that you

for printing. For ImageWriter printing, we suggest that you include at

startup disk, use the Font/DA Mover to install the fonts you wish to use

After you have copied all of the files mentioned above to your printing



disk space to make printing possible.

disk! Eliminating the Finder file is the trick which creates enough extra

Do not include a copy of the Finder file on this special printing startup



printer driver files.

System Software release disks for your copies of the System file and the

files named “Laser Prep” and “LaserWriter.” Use original locked Apple

file named “ImageWriter.” For LaserWriter printing, you need the two

appropriate printer driver files. For ImageWriter printing, you need the

containing a copy of the 6.0.5 System file, a copy of Disinfectant, and the

To solve this problem, you should prepare a special printing startup disk



enough free disk space for these files on a normal 800K startup disk.

space for the printer driver files and ImageWriter spool files. There isn’t

special startup disk. The problem is that printing requires extra disk

• Printing is possible on a Mac with no hard drive, but it requires a



patient.

while it does this preloading, which can take quite some time. Please be

these systems. Disinfectant displays a dialog telling you to “Please wait”

needs to do scanning from the disk. This minimizes “floppy shuffling” on

When you eject the startup disk, we preload the information Disinfectant



floppy drive to insert the disks you wish to scan or disinfect.

automatically. Click the Eject button to eject your startup disk. Use the

Start up Disinfectant from your Virus Tools disk. Disinfectant will run



Tools disk.

floppy drive. In this minimal configuration, you need to use your Virus

• Disinfectant may be used on Macs with no hard drive and only a single



person simultaneously.

• Disinfectant may be installed on a server and used by more than one



advice on what to do if you get an error message.

Messages” for detailed information on what each message means and for

message is issued. Consult the section in this manual titled “Error

for Disinfectant to properly repair such a file, an appropriate error

special cases, Disinfectant is able to repair the files. If it is impossible

possible for a file to be infected by more than one virus. In most of these

be run at all. Sometimes viruses only partially infect files. It is also

• Viruses sometimes damage applications in such a way that they cannot



scan.

problem is not serious. It is annoying, but it does not interfere with the

flashes an alert intermittently while scanning with Disinfectant. The

On a TOPS network, we have noticed that TOPS sometimes beeps and



servers.

Use this special startup floppy only for scanning System 6 AppleShare

that contains a copy of Apple’s “Desktop Manager” startup document file.

can avoid this problem by creating a special Virus Tools startup floppy

or hang during the process of building its version of the Desktop file.) You

to start up the server using a regular startup disk. (The Finder will bomb

server disk contains a large number of applications, it may not be possible

different kind of “desktop” file than is used on regular disks. If the

One problem with System 6 AppleShare server disks is that they use a



AppleShare server disk.

over a network. This is also the only way to scan the Server folder on an

problems. Scanning a local disk is also much faster than scanning a disk

to avoid file busy errors, insufficient privileges errors, and other

using the Mac to which they are directly connected. This is the only way

that you remove servers and shared disks from production and scan them

disks on a TOPS network. For the best results, however, we recommend

• Disinfectant may be used to scan AppleShare server disks and remote



Finder’s “Get Info” command to give Disinfectant more memory.

programs require even more memory, and you may have to use the

enough memory to load them and check them for viruses. Some very large

applications use surprisingly large resources and Disinfectant must have

minimum partition. The large memory partition is desirable because some

allocate the preferred partition and you will have to run with the smaller

running System 6 with MultiFinder, there is not enough memory to

“minimum” memory partition of 300K. On 1 megabyte Macintoshes

• Disinfectant has a “preferred” memory partition of 1000K and a



to make them easy to find in the report.

error messages and messages reporting infected files begin with “###,”

summary at the end of the report tells you if there were any errors. All

and errors on attempts to disinfect “busy” and “damaged” files. The

reports disk full errors on attempts to save files, out of memory errors,

• Disinfectant tries to perform careful error checking. E.g., it properly



in HFS format.

400K floppies are usually in MFS format, whereas other disks are usually

• Disinfectant can scan and repair both MFS and HFS disks. Single-sided



attention for some other reason.

used to notify you if an infection is discovered or if Disinfectant requires

• Disinfectant can scan in the background. The Notification Manager is



• Disinfectant is 32-bit clean and may be run under A/UX.



requirements, it will present an error message alert and quit.

later. If you try to run Disinfectant on a Mac which does not meet these

• Disinfectant requires a Mac 512KE or later model and system 6.0 or



window, etc.

the Preferences window, use the online help facility, admire the About

progress. You can read the manual in the Help window, adjust options in

can do just about anything except start another scan while a scan is in

some other application and the scan will continue in the background. You

and you can use application switching. You can start a scan and switch to

multiple windows open at the same time, you can use desk accessories,

• Disinfectant is “modeless.” This means several things. You can have



manual and take it seriously.

we do not handle properly. Read the disclaimer at the beginning of this

is quite complicated and it is highly likely that there are some rare cases

• It is very important to realize that detecting and repairing infected files



technical topics, and other miscellaneous items.

In this section we discuss various advanced features of Disinfectant,








åSpecial Features



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