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From: portal!cup.portal.com!Alan_J_Roberts%Sun.COM@vma.cc.cmu.edu
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Subject: Virus Disinfectors (PC)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 17:35:59 GMT
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    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.

Alan