Alan_J_Roberts@Sun.COM (06/26/89)
David Loveless and other Virus-L users have asked about virus identification software for PC viruses. The people at HomeBase have put together a program called VIRUSCAN that is able to find and identify the 53 viruses classified by Jim Goodwin in May of this year. The program Scans entire systems or individual diskettes and runs pretty fast (1 minute for each 200 executable files). It's shareware and available on the HomeBase BBS - 408 988 4004. Disinfectors for each virus are also available.
rogers@marlin.nosc.mil (Rollo D. Rogers) (06/29/89)
Sounds Good. Do they plan to make this software available to host sites on the Internet such as SIMTEL20? REgards, RollO Rogers, COMPUSEC SPEC, NOSC S D
rogers@marlin.nosc.mil (Rollo D. Rogers) (07/17/89)
Last thursday i spoke with the author of the VIRUSCAN software Mr. McAfee. Based on that conversation i would like to present the following info concerning the scan program: 1. There is indeed a slight problem when running scan.exe with a DOS version of 2.11 and perhaps any version under 3.0. The scan results apparently are not correct when scanning/searching "multiple" diskettes in Drive A. So the apparent fix for the problem is to either a) type the "dir" command before inserting and scanning succeeding diskettes or b) hit the Ctrl C keys before running scan on the next disk. If the user does not do this they will probably NOT get an acccurate scan and report of the files on the disks following the first diskette searched. And you could possibly have infected files on a diskette that would not be identified. This problem is easy to duplicate if you run scan.exe on multiple disks using DOS V2.11. I was able to duplicate the problem on my NCR PC-6 machine. One other user also reported in a previous VIRUS-L posting that he had experienced the same thing. 2. Also according to Mr. McAfee V019 was a beta test version and Version020 is now available on the HOMEBASE BBS for downloading. Maybe someone could grab V020 and check it out. If OK then send it to SIMTEL20 for people on the Internet to obtain. REgards, RollO~~