Re: QUESTION - Viruses & Shrinkit

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <34db4p$fl9@xmission.xmission.com>,
Brian Wiser  <brwiser@xmission.com> wrote:
>	How commonplace are viruses on the Apple II?  What is the best/most
>comprehensive virus checker and where can I find it?

   There's 2-3 for the GS that I know of (Lode Runner is the name of
one of them), but they almost don't exist. There never really
developed the nasty, bored programmers ready to write lots of viruses
for the GS; I'd love to think that's the result of it being such a
nice machine. :)

   Viruses for pre-GS's are almost impossible to do, mostly because
with only 5.25" disks, and a reboot between programs, anything in
memory can get stomped on by the next program. HDs and programs that
can stay in memory without being stomped on are almost a requirement
for viruses to emerge.

>	This may not be in the right group, but are there any programs on the
>Mac that will decompress a Shrinkit file?  Thanks in advance!

   GS Shrinkit (and maybe Shrinkit 3.x for the //) could read Stuffit
archives, maybe the reverse is true, seeing as Stuffit Deluxe seems to
support a lot of formats. There is an program, nulib, that can
pack/unpack/list shrinkit archives; a mac version was posted to c.b.a2
about 2 weeks ago, I believe. With nulib, you can unpack plain files
(such as on a pre-GS), but forked (GS/OS) files may not unpack on the
mac.

Nathan Mates


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