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From: chrisj@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "INIT 29" virus report
Message-ID: <9245@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 20:52:31 GMT
References: <17098@coherent.com>
Reply-To: chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
Distribution: comp
Organization: U.T. Austin Computation Center
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In article <17098@coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>An accompanying article mentions three new/updated antiviral programs
>that should be available soon:  VirOut (a package that includes both a
>"vaccine" and a "serum") by Mainstay;  an updated version of Virex
>(Robert Woodhead's commercial successor to Interferon) that will detect
>both Hpat and INIT29;  and an updated version of VirusDetective, a
>shareware antiviral d/a by Jeffrey Shulman.

There's another new antivirus program (this one's free) called "GateKeeper".
It's a general purpose antivirus INIT/cdev designed to prevent viruses from
successfully operating/spreading.  It also aides in analyzing viruses by
maintaining a log of the (apparently), virus-related operations that occur.
It is effective against nVIR and Scores, but has not been tested against 
these new viruses.  For myself, I expect that it'll be effective against them
as well, but that's just an educated guess.

It has been posted to comp.binaries.mac, and is already available from 
sumex at Stanford.

Hope this helps,

----Chris