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- F-MACRO - Scanner and disinfector for MS Word document macro viruses
- Copyright (c) 1996 Data Fellows Ltd
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- F-MACRO is a DOS program which searches Word 6.x and 7.x document
- files for known Word macro viruses and disinfects them by disabling
- and overwriting the viral macros. F-MACRO is able to parse the complex
- OLE2 file structure of Word document files making it very fast and
- accurate.
-
- TECHNOLOGY
-
- This scanning and disinfection technology was developed by Data
- Fellows Ltd for the commercial F-PROT Professional package. F-PROT
- Professional for Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT and OS/2 as well as
- the realtime Windows VxD scanners have these macro scanning features
- built in to their normal scanners.
-
- If you are running a VxD-based background protection from the F-PROT
- Professional suite, you will be notified on infected document files as
- soon as you try to open or copy them or when you are receiving such a
- document as an e-mail attachment or downloading it from www.
- Disinfection can also be done in realtime. A VxD-based solution
- provides significantly better protection than antivirus systems
- relying on the Word macro language.
-
- For more information on the F-PROT Professional suite, see the web
- site of Data Fellows at http://www.datafellows.com/ or the web site of
- the US publisher, Command Software Systems at
- http://www.commandcom.com/.
-
- USAGE
-
- Give scan path or drive as the first parameter.
-
- Options:
-
- /DISINF disinfect infected documents
- /AUTO automatic disinfection, no prompting
- /ALL scan files with any extension
- /NOSUB do not recurse sub-directories
- /LIST list all scanned filenames
- /COMPRESS removes unreferenced data from all DOC files
-
- Examples:
-
- F-MACRO C:
- F-MACRO C:\DOCS /ALL /DISINF /AUTO
- F-MACRO Z:\USER\INFECTED.DOC /COMPRESS
-
- Notes:
-
- We recommend you make a backup copy of important document files before
- disinfecting them, just to be safe.
-
- In order to be able to scan all document files, Word should be closed
- down before running F-MACRO: otherwise it will keep NORMAL.DOT and
- possibly other files locked. F-MACRO will give a warning message on
- such files.
-
- If you have document files with non-standard extensions (something
- else than DOC or DOT), use the /ALL parameter to check all files.
-
- If an another virus scanner still thinks that a document file is
- infected after being cleaned by F-MACRO, use the /COMPRESS option
- to remove unused slack areas from a DOC file. You can also use
- this option if a document has already been disinfected manually
- via Tools/Macro but you receiving a false positive from some
- scanner. /COMPRESS will compress all scanned files.
-
- F-MACRO will turn infected documents back to normal document type,
- removing the template attribute added by the viruses.
-
- SUPPORT
-
- For general info on macro viruses, see the macro section at
- http://www.datafellows.com/. For technical support, contact
- F-MACRO-Support@datafellows.com. To send samples of new or
- suspected viruses, see NEW_VIR.DOC.
-
- UPDATES
-
- Updates, when available, can be downloaded from the Data Fellows WWW
- and ftp sites.
-
- KNOWN MACRO VIRUSES
-
- F-MACRO does not search for new and unknown macro viruses.
- List of currently detected and disinfected macro viruses:
-
- WordMacro/Atom
- WordMacro/Boom
- WordMacro/Colors
- WordMacro/Concept
- WordMacro/Concept.Fr
- WordMacro/DMV
- WordMacro/Friendly
- WordMacro/Hot
- WordMacro/Imposter
- WordMacro/NOP
- WordMacro/Nuclear
- WordMacro/Nuclear.B
- WordMacro/Pheeew
- WordMacro/Sex
- WordMacro/Wazzu
- WordMacro/Xenixos
-
- and the following macro trojan:
-
- WordMacro/FormatC
-
- Total: 17 viruses or trojans
-
- The Data Fellows web site has up-to-date descriptions on the
- operation and effects of these macro viruses.
-
- LEGAL
-
- F-MACRO is protected by international copyright laws. F-MACRO is (c)
- 1996 Data Fellows Ltd, and it is not in public domain or freeware, but
- you are free to use and share this software with no charges in
- non-commercial private use. Use of this software in other environments
- is not allowed in Europe, Asia and Africa without a license to F-PROT
- Professional or a current license from Frisk Software International.
- To purchase a license, contact your local distributor listed in
- PRO.DOC. Please redistribute F-MACRO only with this documentation. You
- are not allowed to resell this software for your own profit (normal
- copying costs excluded) or claim to hold rights to this software.
- Although you may have the right to use F-MACRO, it will remain the
- exclusive property of Data Fellows. Data Fellows does not warrant that
- the software is error free and we will not cover any costs created by
- function or malfunction of this program. Data Fellows also disclaims
- liability for possible consequential damages. If you cannot agree to
- these restrictions, you should not use F-MACRO.
-
- Copyright (c) 1996 Data Fellows Ltd, Finland
-