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being susceptible to hide "extra" code...


  
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Directory content (05/27/92):
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McAfee Associates programs:

VSHLD89B .ZIP	McAfee's VirusShield - TSR - detection		*

CLEAN89B.ZIP	McAfee's Clean               eradication        *

NETSC89B.ZIP	McAfee's NetScan - network - detection          *

SCANV89B.ZIP	McAfee's Scan                detection          *

VCOPY82 .ZIP	McAfee's Vcopy

WSCAN89B.ZIP	McAfee's Scan for windows			*

* update.

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A. Padgett Peterson programs
DS95    .ZIP	Hard-disk protection; sent by the author.

NOFBOOT .ZIP	NoFBoot is a small (500 byte) TSR designed to
		prevent inadvertant booting from a floppy disk. 
		With NoFBoot, a cold start (reset button or cycle power) will 
		be necessary to boot from a floppy.

CHK     .ZIP	Two utilities to check both floppy and hard disk and detect the
		"Michelangelo" virus.
		These two programs are integrity checkers.

CHKINT  .ZIP	Checks the interrupts of a given program without running the
		said program.  Useful to track possible trojan horses.

FIXUTIL3.ZIP	This archive contains minor updates of the FixXXX programs. *

*  update

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Jan Terpstra's TB programs

TBRESC19.ZIP	File recovery program

TBSCAN33.ZIP	Scanning program; needs VSIGxxxx to operate

TBSCNX31.ZIP	Scanning program; needs VSIGxxxx to operate
		TSR.

ASIG9205.ZIP	Gen-PB virus signature for TBSCAN(X) & HTSCAN

VSIG9204.ZIP	Signature strings for the above programs

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VIRUS-L / COMP.VIRUS documents

VIRUS-L.ZIP	Frequently asked questions about viruses.
		Editor:  Ken Van Wyk
		Note:  this is the same file, but in .ZIP format, as the
		one found on SIMTEL20 and mirror sites VIRUS-L.FAQ

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CARO Hamburg documents & programs

MSDOS   .ZIP	Virus catalog.  Last update:  jan 1992.  This archive contains
		also the previous catalogs

SHRDOC  .ZIP	Virus detection program

VIP     .ZIP	Virus analysis tool

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FULLVIEW.ZIP	This program is an enhanced memory browser, with many
		possible uses, including but not limited to virus studies.
		As such, it is located in the [.msdos.utilities] directory.
		The program was sent by the author, Patrick Toulme.

FP-203a .ZIP	Update.  Stand alone - detection/eradication - Uploaded by
		the author on oak.oakland.edu, and fetched from there.

LOCK    .ZIP	Hard-disk protection scheme; from NZ.  Freeware
		NOTE:  this version of the program will protect *only* for
		hard disk boot, and will NOT protect against floppy boots.
		A new version is announced.

VIRX23  .ZIP	Easy to use free virus checker.  Please note that VIRX catches
		the new HYDRA virus.  This is an *update*.

SECUR235.ZIP	Hard disk protection (update).

DIR2CLR .ZIP	From Vesselin V. Bonchev:  DIR2 virus cleaner.
		Provided with source code by Ken V. Wik.
		Note:  no documetation provided!

V-FAQ   .ZIP	Frequently Asked Questions about PC viruses.  Version 2
		By:  Tapio Keihanen.

ANSIKILL.ZIP	Kill embedded escape sequences which can be included into
		"comment files" in self-extracting .ZIP archives.  Contra-
		ry to STRIPZIP, the comment file is *not* removed.  Use
		against "ansi bombs".  Shareware.

VIRLAB14.ZIP	Virus simulator from Germany

I-M113  .ZIP    Integrity Master version 1.13 is an easy to use, anti-virus and
	        data integrity program.  Shareware.  Update.

AUTOSN33.ZIP	Checks archive files for viruses.  The way it works is very
		simple, all it does is un-archive any ZIP, ARC, ICE, LZH, PAK,
		or ARJ file into a work directory (\AUTOSN), then use McAffee's
		SCAN.EXE to scan it for any virus.
		The program is reasonably fast, and, better, completely automa-
		ted.  A log file is created at completion.
		This version is the shareware version; some options are removed
		from the commercial version.

SWVSAF11.ZIP	Safeword.  VirusSafe from Enigma Logig.  Fetched from
		Oak.Oakland.edu

IMMUNISE.ZIP	Immunises a fixed disk against boot sector viruses.  The
		IMMUNISE modifies the partition & boot sectors of your fixed
		disk to prevent boot sector viruses (such as the Stoned virus)
		from establishing themselves on your system.  It also helps you
		recover from some types of accidental damage to your system.
		Shareware from New Zeland

BOOTID  .ZIP	Identify a diskette's boot sector type ("hashcode").
		Use BOOTID to check the boot sector of DOS diskettes, to
		produce a 12-byte hashed identifier string based on the
		contents of the diskette's first sector.
		Copyrighted Freeware from New Zeland

CHECKOUT.ZIP	Display or check a diskette or Hashcode.
		Use CHECKOUT to check the boot sector of DOS diskettes, to
		produce a 12-byte hashed identifier string based on the
		contents of the diskette's first sector, identical to the
		BOOTID program, but with better descriptions and more options.
		You can also use it to explain a hashcode created elsewhere.
		The program only works with diskettes.
                Copyrighted Freeware from New Zeland

VSUMX205.ZIP	Patricia Hoffman list of currently known viruses.  Hypertext
		format.  Shareware.  *update*

STEALTH .ZIP	Stealth Bomber is an anti-virus utility.  It performs simple
		checks by looking for suspicious behaviour in the operating
		system and checks files with one of the most effective weapons
		against computer viruses:  the Cyclic Redundancy Check, or CRC.
		This program is public domain.

VDS20T  .ZIP	Another virus scanner/eradicator

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Other material:

VIRUSFAQ.ZIP   This is the VIRUS-L "Frequently Asked Questions" list.
               Last updated on Wednesday, 18 March 1992.


