Shortly after I updated virus definitions in VirusBarrier X4, a scan reported infection of fink.conf and fink.conf~ by SH.NarcoDusse.gen, and the subsequent repair option replaced both files with null files. I found that the backups I had saved were also infected, although VirusBarrier had not previously detected this, so I am stymied. Do I need to reinstall fink from scratch? If so, how do I remove the old one that no longer works?
I tried copying another user's fink.conf file, but found I needed permissions I don't have. It might not work anyway, since he is using a later version of OS X, 10.4 instead of 10.3. I conjectured that meant changing the Distribution line, but there might be other subtler diffferences as well. Since I am such a newbie, I probably should not invoke superuser privileges to experiment with such fixes for fink.conf. The version of fink that I was using was 0.7.1, installed May '05. I have not used it recently, but I think I should have something that functions or get rid of it. I used it back then to install PARI-GP and teTeX and might find it useful again sometime. Incidentally, I could not find info on that virus on the internet, which surprised me, as did the infection of a non-executable file, and on a Mac as well. My illusions are being shattered one after another. Thanks for any help you can provide. Sincerely, Ralph Krause ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
