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.
AlanIPBR400@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