wcs@erebus.att.com (William Clare Stewart) (03/16/91)
What products are out there to deal with viruses? I'm especially interested in products to clean up virused disks, as well as detection. I've tried looking at the archives on beach.gal.*, but unfortunately they seem to be in PKARC or ZIP forms which I'm not able to decode on my UNIX system (I've got regular ARC, and the unzip stuff I've found in the archives doesn't seem to work on System V.) Are there other archive sites? Aside from a problem at work, which we've mostly cleaned out now, the person whose machine was infected says his kid says all the PCs at school have the same problem (Jerusalem-B black spots), so we're trying to find a public-domain cleanup solution. ( The commercial products I've seen require licensing, which I doubt the school would spring for, and I'd rather not see them ripping off code which is presumably what got them in this trouble. Do any of the commercial products allow schools to use them free?) Pray for peace; Bill # Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M-312 Holmdel NJ # Hacker. System Designer. Troublemaker.
p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade) (03/23/91)
wcs@erebus.att.com (William Clare Stewart) writes: > ( The commercial products I've seen require licensing, which I doubt > the school would spring for, and I'd rather not see them ripping off > code which is presumably what got them in this trouble. Do any of the > commercial products allow schools to use them free?) I have received one "freeware" (copyright, but no charge for use) package from Holland, Thunderbyte Scan. It has three components, a scanner (TBSCAN), a TSR scanner (TBSCANX) and a disk boot recovery utility (TBRESC). Thus, although it does not have a "disinfect" function, it will indentify files infected with viri so that they can be replaced with originals, and it will allow floppy boot sectors to be replaced. I have also seen a program distributed as VC3-2.ZIP, which contains version 3.2 of a program called "Victor Charlie", of which version 4.0 will apparently be commercial. This appears to be "change detection" software. Aside from that, I recommend FPROT as the cheapest and best "value for cost" of all the antiviral products yet reviewed. frisks "licenses" for educational use are $1 per computer per year as of version 1.14. ============= Vancouver p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca | You realize, of Institute for Robert_Slade@mtsg.sfu.ca | course, that these Research into (SUZY) INtegrity | new facts do not User Canada V7K 2G6 | coincide with my Security | preconceived ideas