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- INNOC Boot Virus Immunizer
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- (c) Mike McCune 1991 - All rights reserved.
-
- This program may be used and distributed freely.
-
- Boot Sectors infectors are among the most prevalent of computer viruses
- in the US. Commercial programs that detect and clean out these viruses
- do not confer any immunity, and the same diskettes can be reinfected
- at a later date by the same virus.
-
- INNOC is a general-purpose Boot virus immunizer for diskettes. It will not
- only destroy Boot Sector infectors, but will `innoculate' against some of
- the more common Boot viruses. To use it, insert the desired diskette in
- Drive A: and type:
-
- innoc <ENTER>
-
- INNOC will immediately destroy any Boot infectors present on the diskette
- and will simultaneously immunize it against the following viruses:
-
- Brain
- Ashar
- Stoned
- Ping-Pong
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- Diskettes immunized by INNOC will not be infected by any of the viruses
- against which INNOC confers immunity. The immunization is achieved by
- writing special code sequences into the Boot Sector. For this reason,
- immunized Diskettes can no longer be used as Booting disks. Since most
- disks are never used in that manner, this is not a major problem. If you
- need to make a diskette bootable again, simply use DOS's SYS.COM (SYS A:.).
- This, however, will destroy the immunization conferred by INNOC.
-
- INNOC issues the following messages:
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-
- Read Error | An error occured while reading from the diskette. Simply
- run the program again. Usually a hardware/media problem.
-
- Write Error | An error occured writing to the diskette. Same as above.
- Try again.
-
- Diskette A: | Any Boot Sector viruses have been disabled, and the diskette
- Innoculated | is now immunized.
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-
- DISCLAIMER
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- In order to avoid getting sued, I offer no warranty on this or any
- other program. I do appreciate suggestions, though. I can be reached
- on the ILink and FidoNet virus conferences. I can also be reached
- on the RelayNet DataProtect and Virus-L conferences. My BitNet address
- is MMCCUNE@SCTNVE...<MM>.
-