>I am concerned that any anti-virus software >might be in conflict with Emailer and so I posed my question. Sorry if >that is an inconvenience to you.
Here is my best answer for anti-virus softwareOS 9: 1. Find a copy of Disinfectant 3.7.1. It was last updated in 1995, but it works fine, no conflicts with OS 8 or 9, amazingly. Even the protection extension has no conflicts after 9 years. I believe there are three problems Disinfectant doesn't handle, the Autostart virus, Microsoft Macro viruses, and one other, which I don't remember, but is very rare. Because of Macro and the Autostart viirus, a generic warning was placed on the original Disinfectant home page, but you can ignore it. Now you have to take care of the handful of "new" viruses. 2. Disable autorun inside Quicktime. 3. Create some empty text files, called DB, DELDB, Desktop DB, DBDesktop Printer Spooler, Desktop Print Spooler DELDesktop, Print Spooler, and lock them in the Finder. Put the Desktop Print Spooler and DELDesktop Print Spooler files in your Extensions folder. Put the other files in your boot volume icon, essentially the highest (root) level. 4. Don't use Word or other Microsoft products. Failing that, disable all Macros in Office. Also: Don't use Hypercard if you are *really* worried, or don't want to spend a penny on protection. There are a few Hypercard trojans, but they can only infect other Hypercard decks. 5. Buy yourself a case of wine each year with the savings. I think this takes care of all 40 Mac OS 9 viruses, but I am happy to be corrected if there is one I missed. Instructions for Anti-virus removal for OS X: 1. See step 4 and 5, above. "He was the only person I met who knew more about electronics than me" - Steve Jobs explaining his initial fascination with Woz "Steve didn't know very much about electronics" - Steve Wozniak Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames@ softraid.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
