The string “ANTI” appears within the virus, hence its name.



can still cause problems.

do any damage other than spread itself. As with all viruses, however, it

As with the other viruses, ANTI is non-malicious. It does not attempt to



version, especially on old Macintoshes with the 64K ROMs.)

application may use memory slightly less efficiently than the original

the repaired application. The only effect of this error is that the repaired

know the values of the original attributes, so it leaves them cleared on

resource attributes of the CODE 1 resource. Disinfectant has no way to

(For the technically inclined, the error in ANTI is that it clears all the



any case.

copy and replace it by an uninfected original copy. This is good advice in

and repaired by Disinfectant, we recommend that you delete the repaired

you experience problems with an application which was infected by ANTI

minor, however, and in almost all cases it does not cause any problems. If

exactly identical to the uninfected original application. The damage is very

other words, the application as repaired by Disinfectant is usually not

in such a way that Disinfectant cannot repair them absolutely perfectly. In

There is an error in ANTI which causes it to slightly damage applications



used. It only spreads when Finder is used.

Due to a technical quirk, ANTI does not spread at all when MultiFinder is



possible for an application to become infected even if it is never run.

INIT 29 virus, but more contagious than the Scores and nVIR viruses. It is

Finder). ANTI does not infect document files. It is less contagious than the

infects applications and other files which resemble applications (e.g.,

Unlike the other viruses, ANTI does not infect the System file. It only



The ANTI virus first appeared in France in early 1989.




xThe ANTI Virus

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