jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) (07/14/89)
It's about time I posted an announcement of some of the anti-viral programs I've collected for the IBMPC archives. To find an archive site near you, check my earlier posting to this list of all the archive sites cooperating with virus-l/comp.virus. Here are a few of the recent additions. (However, not all of these are "new" programs---just programs I've recently found.) bombchek.arc 2 oldies, plus 2 "new" programs. Includes Chk4Bomb and BombSqad, as well as WPHD and FPHD. The latter two write/format protect your hard drive with a TSR. chklharc.arc Checks self-extracting LHarchives for potential bombs. A batch file can be included to automatically execute when archive is extracted. Now if that batch file included FORMAT C:... chkup35.arc Version 3.5 of CheckUP. Performs a "randomized" CRC check of your files. If nothing else, get this for the five pounds of documentation. :-) dprot102.arc TSR to protect drives. Update to DProtect.arc. No source. dvir1701.exe Detects and removes the 1701 virus from .COM files. epw.arc Password protect executables (?? - no docs). f-prot.arc This package includes a LOT of different utilities to aid in fighting viruses. There are programs to check memory, check the boot block, check files, lock files, lock drives, etc. Also included is a driver to put into your config.sys file. This release is a beta-test version. immune.arc TSR to protect system from Friday 13th and April 1st viruses. inoculat.arc VERY simple protection against Lehigh. md40.arc Removes many boot/partition viruses, for DOS 4.0 only. Versions available from author for other releases of MSDOS. novirus.arc Checks command processor to detect tampering. provecrc.arc Demo of CRC checking, showing some "flaws" of the method. sentry02.arc Fast CRC program for verifying all of disk. Reads only a "vital" portion of each file to determine its integrity. unvirus.arc Repairs files after infections of the Friday 13th, April 1st and Ping-Pong viruses. vaci13.arc Checksums OS files. vdetect.arc Virus detecter tracks all files on disk. virusgrd.arc (?? - no docs) viruscan.arc Program to scan an entire disk and determine if any files are infected with a virus. This is version 0.3v19, which is aware of 19 viruses but still has some bugs. vlist01d.arc Well, in spite of the fact that it's not yet "done" I've decided to distribute my index of the anti-viral archives. The file is a DeVice Independent (.dvi) file produced as the output of TeX. You will need a driver or previewer to use the file. At the moment, the chances of a plain-text version seem slim. If there is demand, I could also make a PostScript version available. This version only covers IBMPC programs and IBMPC documents. I plan to expand it to Amiga progs/docs and general documents. - -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu