Virus List
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I still have a very old sample of Honecker if you want it.

Yes please send me a sample, archive it with a password...thank you

Very useful to check old HDDs found in systems, thanks for the hard work!

keropi wrote on 2024-05-23, 13:55:

Very useful to check old HDDs found in systems, thanks for the hard work!

50% of the time it will find or detect the most common viruses of that DOS era. Nevertheless , still useful if you need to transfer it using a floppy disk , since most antiviruses especially the updated ones such as those released in the late 90's
are so huge that they barely fit in a 1.44MB disk. Thank you too!

Nice! Will check it out after my holidays. How complete is the virus list btw? Does it detect all known dos viruses or a subset?

Yoghoo wrote on 2024-05-23, 14:56:

Nice! Will check it out after my holidays. How complete is the virus list btw? Does it detect all known dos viruses or a subset?

Cool. It will detect all those viruses that are present in the virus list and identify a couple of variants of subsets such as Stoned, Jerusalem, etc. There is no such antivirus that will detect all "known" DOS viruses. Some virus may be detectable by one vendor and others may not be able to detect it. Although, antiviruses such as Kaspersky and F-Prot are best in detecting them through heuristics, even though they are not "known" to them. I've have seen may viruses in my collection missed by those two vendors as well

Masaw wrote on 2024-05-23, 13:27:

Yes please send me a sample, archive it with a password...thank you

https://www.sendspace.com/file/x3y3ew
password is: honecker

Geri wrote on 2024-06-02, 18:01:

Masaw wrote on 2024-05-23, 13:27:

Yes please send me a sample, archive it with a password...thank you

https://www.sendspace.com/file/x3y3ew
password is: honecker

Cool, thanks!

I know DOS hasn't been updated since before 2005, but why is the copyright still on 2005? Has this not been updated since 2005?

demiurge wrote on 2024-06-03, 02:50:

I know DOS hasn't been updated since before 2005, but why is the copyright still on 2005? Has this not been updated since 2005?

It was suppose to be a "final" release in 2005 but wasn't able to finished all the things I wanted to put in...I did however rewrite many parts of the code in 2015 and added few again things in 2019 and lastly just this February and May 2024 but didn't bother to change the copyright date.