Alan_J_Roberts@Sun.COM (06/09/89)
Rob Nauta and others have asked about specific disinfectors for IBM PC viruses. HomeBase maintains disinfectors for virtually all PC viruses. The MDISK programs remove any boot sector or partition table virus; there are disinfectors for 1701, 1704, Lehigh, Jerusalem-A, Jerusalem-B, Pakistani volume label restore and many others. The MDISK programs are part of the McAfee utilities and are shareware, many of the others are also shareware. If anyone is interested in these programs call HomeBase at 408 988 4004. Also, there is now a very good presentation graphics package on viruses that runs on any VGA system that has just been made public domain. It's great for talks, seminars, presentations etc. on viruses. Also available on HomeBase. Alan Roberts
Alan_J_Roberts%Sun.COM@vma.cc.cmu.edu (11/18/89)
There have been a number of questions on Virus-L in the past few weeks about "cures" for the various infections that have been reported. While not all infections can be "cured" without the loss of some or all of the infected programs, there are a number of disinfectors that can remove the more common viruses and repair the damage to the infected application in many cases. Disinfectors available on HomeBase (408 988 4004) are: Dark Avenger - M-DAV.ARC Traceback/3066 - M-3066.ARC Vienna - M-VIENNA.ARC Ping-Pong (all vers.) - MD.ARC 1701 - M-1704.ARC 1704 - M-1704.ARC 1704-C - M-1704C.ARC Jerusalem - M-JRUSLM.ARC Stoned - MD.ARC Ghost (Boot seg.) - MD.ARC Brain - MD.ARC (bootable diskettes only) Alameda - MD.ARC " Den Zuk - MD.ARC " Disk Killer (Ogre) - MD.ARC For all other viruses, the ViruScan (versions 48 and above) /D option will overwrite all infected files with C3H and then delete the file. This will effectively remove the virus from the system, but infected applications will be deleted. It'll save a re-format though. If you are looking for a non-shareware (yuch!!) solution, then the VirClean program is an integrated package that does just about all of the viruses. Seems to work but requires money. Alan
IPBR400@INDYCMS.BITNET (Pat Ralston) (11/22/89)
Thanks to Alan for his contribution on Fri. Nov. 17th. Listing many or all of the Virus Disinfectors and the viruses associated with them was a big help and a time saver. Hunting through the back issues of this list for specific information is becoming an unruly task for me. Now will some one do the same kind of list for the Mac? Thank you in advance. Pat Ralston