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Re: SCAN Ver 97 & Monkey Virus (PC).

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From: John Mechalas
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:43
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martin@cs.ualberta.ca (Tim Martin; FSO; Soil Sciences) writes:
>But it isn't trivial, so instead you might want to get a copy of
>my KILLMONK program, which does that and more for you.  It uses
>some careful identification strings, checks that the recovered MBR
>is correct, etc.  Also makes scanning and cleaning of floppies 
>easy.  And strictly speaking, it doesn't require a clean boot, as
>long as the only virus messing things up at the time is Monkey.
>
>I think KILLMONK may have been posted at some of the ftp sites.
>If you can't find it, or want me to send it (uuencoded) via
>e-mail, drop me a note.  (It's free of course, and worth every
>virtual cent!)

I found killmonk.zip at oak.oakland.edu, so I assume it is at all of
the SIMTEL20 mirrors.  It's in the trojan-pro directory, by the way.
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