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of your remaining suspect backup floppies.
and floppies), then do a new full backup, and finally erase (reformat) all
we recommend that you first disinfect all of your other disks (hard drives
recognized by Disinfectant. If you suspect that your backups are infected,
programs usually write their backups in a special format which is not
produced by most of the various hard disk backup utility programs. These
Disinfectant cannot be used to check the backup floppy disks or tapes
them.
utilities, files are automatically decompressed when programs access
compression utilities like Disk Doubler and AutoDoubler. With these kind of
Disinfectant does, however, work properly with automatic disk
infections, you must unpack them and check the unpacked files.
utility. If you have such files and want to make certain they do not contain
they have been compressed, converted or archived by some similar
text file with BinHex, if they have been compressed with PackIt, or if
Compact Pro, or other kind of archive, if they have been converted to a
Disinfectant will not detect infected files if they are part of a StuffIt,
about this problem.
(the timing between notes is not correct). There is nothing we can do
versions of the Apple system software, the tune is not played correctly
The Disinfectant about box plays a tune. On some Mac models with some
later.
If you use INITPicker, check to make certain that you have version 2.0 or
not properly deal with INITs whose names begin with a special character.
INITPicker earlier than version 2.0. The earlier versions of INITPicker did
The Disinfectant INIT is incompatible with versions of Microseed’s
have version 2.0.6 or later.
Speed Beep to refuse to work. If you use Speed Beep, make certain you
“Speed Beep” earlier than version 2.0.6. The incompatibility causes
The Disinfectant INIT is incompatible with versions of Robert Mathew’s
certain you have version 1.5 or later.
can cause crashes and other problems. If you use Greg’s Buttons, make
with versions of “Greg’s Buttons” earlier than 1.5. The incompatibility
Both the Disinfectant program and the Disinfectant INIT are incompatible
Cobra driver contained an error which caused problems with Disinfectant.
version 1.1.3 or later of the Cobra disk driver. Earlier versions of the
If you have a Rodime Cobra disk drive, make certain that you are using
problems involve incompatibilities with older versions of other software.
This section lists some known problems with Disinfectant. Many of these
åKnown Problems
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