🚀 go-pugleaf

I got nobrain.c, a program that removes a Brain virus from a diskette,
and antidote, which removes the pingpong virus from a disk. These
tools made me wonder, is there a program that recognises viruses for
the PC ? Mac antiviral programmes do, because everytime a new virus is
found the tools can't help and a new version comes out, extended to
recognise that one as well.  Is there a program that says 'this disk
(or COM or EXE file) is infected by ......' ?? I know FluShot+ warns
if you boot from a Lehigh-infected disk.  Furthermore, is there a
program that desinfects COM or EXE files that were infected by, say,
the 1701/1704, TSR virus etc ?? At the moment everybody says 'install
your software from your backups and start with a clean system' but
seeing how fast I can clear the Pingpong from a disk makes me
interested to find out if there are programs that restore program
files...  If those programs don't exist, I may start writing my own
tool for it, I will need some info then how I can recognise known
viruses and how I can reconstruct the file (delete the first 1701 or
1704 bytes seems logical in that case, but is it correct, and what
about the others??)  I hope someone can help me, thanks in advance

Rob J. Nauta   -   Fidelio Software