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 Amiga 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.) bootback.arc A program to backup boot blocks. Includes source. This is worth getting, if only to read the comments in the source code. bootune.arc The program installs a boot block which plays a tune each time you boot. If the song gets messed up, you should suspect something wrong with the boot sector. clkdoct3.arc This program will fix the "clock virus". I'm fairly certain there is no such virus, but crashes and errant programs can affect the battery backed clock making it stop or run incredibly fast. This program will reset the clock mode. (AmigaDOS 1.3's "setclock" has this feature reset feature built-in.) crc.zoo This program will generate CRCs for any number of files, or will check the CRCs against a prior list. The author wrote it to verify recoverable RAM drives, disk copies and file transfers. However, it also works well as a virus checker. Includes a utility to generate a list of files with full path names. guard.arc The guardian is a resident program to check your system at reboots. It is dormant at other times. Includes a version that can be patched into Kickstart. Subsequent releases are commercially available from Transactor. vrstrp.arc This program should be included as the first command in your startup-sequence. It simply checks its size, and reports any difference. This will catch any infection by the (current) IRQ virus. xboot.zoo This program will take a file (assumed to be a capture of a boot block) and convert it into an executable program. After this, you can use your favorite debugger on the virus. - -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu