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- NETFIX Version 1.0
- Copyright 1990
- JoVonn Software
-
- 1317 Chewpon Court
- Milpitas, CA 95035
- 408 262 6056 (BBS)
- 408 946 6262 (FAX/VOICE)
-
- Copyright Notice:
- The Virus scanning and removal technology used within
- the NETFIX program has been licensed from McAfee
- Associates.
-
- OVERVIEW:
-
- NETFIX is a network virus scanner and virus remover combined.
- It is the equivalent of the Mcafee Associates NETSCAN and CLEAN-UP
- products wrapped up into one program. It scans for all viruses
- detected by NETSCAN and cleans all non-boot sector viruses handled
- by CLEAN-UP. It uses the Mcafee Associates naming conventions and
- will clean any virus detected by NETSCAN V56 or greater, using the
- NETSCAN virus output name.
-
- NETFIX kills and removes network viruses. It can also repair
- infected files in most instances. It will re-construct damaged
- programs to their original condition so that they may continue to
- be safely used.
- The NETFIX scan option allows you to scan workstations or
- network file servers to determine if an infection exists. If any
- of the 45 viruses capable of infecting networks is present, NETFIX
- will display a warning and identify the virus and each infected
- file. The clean option can then be used to eliminate the virus.
- The clean option searches the entire system looking for the
- virus that you wish to remove. When found, the infected file is
- identified, the virus is isolated and removed, and in most cases,
- the infected file is repaired. If the file is infected with a less
- common virus that cannot be separated from the file, the infected
- file is wiped from the disk and deleted from the system. A warning
- message is displayed by NETFIX before erasing any files, and you
- have the option of overriding the erase function.
- The common viruses that NETFIX is able to remove successfully
- and repair and restore the damaged programs are:
-
- Jerusalem B Alabama
- Jerusalem A Jerusalem E
- Dark Avenger Suriv03
- Payday Alameda
- 1701 1704
- Sunday 1260
-
- These viruses account for the majority of infection
- occurrences. All other network viruses will be identified
- and isolated by NETFIX and the infected files' area of disk will
- be wiped clean and the files will be removed from the system.
-
- Note: Some viruses cannot be successfully removed
- from all infected .EXE files in 100% of the cases. A few
- EXE programs will be damaged beyond repair by the
- infection and they will have to be deleted. In all
- cases, however, the virus in the file will be killed and
- rendered harmless by NETFIX.
-
-
-
- RUNNING NETFIX:
- First, run NETFIX with the /S option. This will determine
- whether or not an infection exists, and if so, the virus and
- infected areas of the network will be identified.
-
- To run the NETFIX scan type:
-
- NETFIX d1: d2: .. dn: /S
-
- where dn: is the network logical drive designator
-
-
- NETFIX will then begin a virus scan on the logical drives
- specified. If a virus is found, the name of the virus and the
- infected files will be displayed thus:
-
- dn:\directory\filename
- Found VIRUSNAME [I.D.]
-
- The I.D. that is displayed within the brackets will be used
- later to tell NETFIX to remove the infection if so desired.
-
-
- If a virus is discovered:
- Before you begin the disinfection process, you must
- power down the infected computer and then re-boot the computer from
- a clean, write-protected system diskette. This step is very
- important. It will remove the virus from control in memory and
- prevent the virus from continuing to infect during the clean-up
- process.
-
- To Begin the Disinfection type:
-
- NETFIX d1: d2: ... dn: [virusname] /a /many
-
- where:
-
- dn: - Logical drive designators for drives to be cleaned.
- (up to 10 drives may be cleaned with one command)
-
- [virusname] - The virus I.D. (brackets must be included)
-
- /a - Option to check all files
-
- /many - Option to allow cleaning multiple floppies
-
-
- Examples:
-
- NETFIX C: D: [Jeru] will clean Jerusalem from C and D
- drives
-
- NETFIX C:\TEMP [Dav] /a Will clean Dark avenger from
- C:\TEMP and will search all file
- extensions for the virus
-
-
- NETFIX will display the name of each infected file as it is
- found. When the virus has been removed from each file, a
- "successful" message will be displayed.
-
-
- NOTE: If a file has been infected multiple times by a
- virus, clean will display the name of the file and
- the "successful" message for each infection
- occurrence. Thus, multiple lines will be displayed
- for each file infected more than once.
-
-
- After running the disinfection step, run NETFIX again with the
- /S /A options. This will ensure that all remnants of the virus
- have been removed.
- After cleaning the fixed disk drives, use the /S option to
- scan all floppies that have been used on the network since the
- infection began. If infections are found on any diskette remove
- them as above.
-
- The I.D.'s for each of the known viruses are listed
- in brackets below. These I.D.'s are used with permission of McAfee
- Associates:
-
- Oropax [Oro] 4096 [4096]
- AIDS Trojan [AIDS] Virus-90 [90]
- Amstrad [Amst] Devil's Dance [Dance]
- Holland Girl [Holland] Datacrime II-B [Crime-2B]
- Do-Nothing virus [Nothing] Sunday virus [Sunday]
- Lisbon virus [Lisb] Typo COM virus [Typo]
- DBASE virus [Dbase] Ghost COM Version [Ghost-C]
- New Jerusalem [Jeru] Alabama [Alabama]
- Yankee Doodle [Doodle] 2930 [2930]
- AIDS / Taunt [Taunt] 1536 / Zero Bug [Zero]
- MIX1 [Mix1] Dark Avenger [Dav]
- 3551 / Syslock [Syslock] Vacsina [Vacs]
- Typo Datacrime II [Crime-2]
- Icelandic-II / System [Ice-2] 3066 / Traceback [3066]
- Datacrime-B [Crime-B] Icelandic [Ice]
- Saratoga [Toga] 405 [405]
- 1704 Format [170X] Fu Manchu / 2086 [Fu]
- 1280 / Datacrime [Crime] 1701 / Cascade [170X]
- 1704 / Cascade-B [170X] 1704 / Cascade [170X]
- Den Zuk Vienna-B [Vienna-B]
- Lehigh [Lehigh] Vienna / DOS-62 [Vienna]
- Jerusalem-B [Jeru] Friday 13th COM virus [13]
- Jerusalem-A / 1813 [Jeru] Suriv03 / Jerusalem-E [Jeru]
- Suriv02 [jeru-D] Suriv01 [April]
- Taiwan [Taiwan] Halloechen [Hal]
- Perfume [Fume] Joker [Joke]
- Icelandic-3 [Ice-3] 1260 [1260]
- Virus-101 [101]
-
-
- REGISTRATION:
- NETFIX may be distributed and evaluated for ten days at no
- cost. After ten days it must be removed from your premises or it
- must be registered. Small businesses with fewer than 10 PCs on a
- network may register by sending $40. This registration is valid
- for one year. Corporations and organizations owning or leasing
- more than 10 PCs are required to purchase a site license for use.
- For site license information contact:
-
- JoVonn Software
- 1317 Chewpon Court
- Milpitas, CA 95035
- 408 262 6056 (BBS)
- 408 946 6262 (FAX/VOICE)
-
-
- NOTE: The virus scanning and removal technology used by NETFIX has
- been licensed from McAfee Associates.