FINDVIRU.TXT                              


  QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE 
  =====================  Evaluation version of Dr Solomon's FindVirus v7.74


This version of Dr Solomon's FindVirus is designed to run on IBM PC
compatible computers.  Remember that FindVirus is just one part of Dr
Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.

The full commercial Toolkit includes many other facilities including a user 
interface, TSR, VxD, Virus Encyclopedia etc as well as versions specific for 
DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Novell NetWare, UNIX and 
Apple Macintosh.  Read TOOLKIT.TXT for more information on this.

If you suspect you may have a virus we strongly recommend that you 
cold-boot (not Ctrl-Alt-Del) from a clean (virus-free), write-protected      
floppy disk and run FindVirus from a write-protected floppy.  This ensures
that the virus will not be in memory while you are scanning or attempting
to repair the infection.  If FindVirus detects a virus in memory it will
warn you with a suitable message.


FINDVIRUS SYNTAX
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Users of 8086/286 machines will be unable to use the /ANALYZE and
/UNZIP options, as they are only available on 386 PCs and better.
See the descriptions below for more details.

Syntax

           FINDVIRU [switches]



Switches

           /386 ................. Force use of 386 version of FindVirus 
                                  (which supports the unzipping and 
                                  heuristic analysis command-line 
                                  options).  FindVirus should 
                                  automatically detect if you have a 386,
                                  but if you experience problems try this
                                  switch.
           /ALLDRIVES or /AD..... Check all fixed disk drives,
                                  including network drives.
           /ANALYZE or /ANALYSE   
                    or /AN....... Use Advanced Heuristic Analysis
                                  to detect new and unknown viruses,
                                  including new and unknown Word
                                  macro viruses!
           /DOALLFILES .......... Check all files, not just
                                  executables.
           /EXTRA=file .......... Use specified additional virus
                                  driver file.
           /HELP or /? .......... Display command-line syntax.
           /LOCAL ............... Check local hard drives.
           /LOUD ................ Display verbose output.
           /NOPACK .............. Do not scan internally files
                                  compressed with PKLite, LZExe,
                                  ICE, CryptCom, Microsoft Compress
                                  and Diet (default).
           /PACK ................ Scan internally files compressed
                                  with PKLite, LZExe, ICE, CryptCom,
                                  Microsoft Compress and Diet.
           /PRINTOUT ............ Output report to printer as well
                                  as to screen.
           /REPAIR [/DELETE] .... Repair infected files.  The optional
                                  /DELETE switch deletes files that
                                  cannot be repaired.
           /REPORT=file ......... Output report to specified file.
           /UNZIP ............... Scan recursively files compressed
                                  with PKZIP, ARJ, ARC, LZH, PKLite,
                                  LZExe, ICE, CryptCom, Microsoft
                                  Compress and Diet.  If you use this
                                  switch it is not necessary to use
                                  the /PACK option.
           /YESBREAK ............ Allow FindVirus to be interrupted
                                  during scan with Ctrl-Break.


 There are a lot more switches available in the regular version of
 Dr Solomon's FindVirus included in the full commercial version of
 Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.

EXAMPLES
========

FINDVIRU C:
  Scans the C: drive for known viruses

FINDVIRU C: /UNZIP
  Scans the C: drive for known viruses, including inside compressed 
  and archived files.

FINDVIRU C: D: /ANALYSE
  Scans the C: and D: drives for both known *and* unknown viruses
  - including new and unknown macro viruses.

FINDVIRU /LOCAL /REPAIR
  Scans all local fixed drives for known viruses.  If any are found 
  FindVirus will attempt to clean-up the infection.

FINDVIRU A: /REPORT=C:\REPORT.TXT
  Scans the A: drive for known viruses, writing a report to REPORT.TXT in
  the root directory of the C: drive


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