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Macintosh Security Tools


Anti-virus Software

Disinfectant
Gatekeeper
Microsoft Macro Virus Tool
SAM

Disinfectant

Disinfectant, by John Norstad, is a program designed to detect and remove all known Macintosh viruses. Included in the program is a small extension which, once installed, will provide run-time detection of known viruses.

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Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper, by Chris Johnson, is a set of Macintosh system extensions and related control panels which offer protection against attacks by all currently known viruses. It also monitors computer activities for what are considered to be suspicious 'events' or 'operations', in an attempt to intercept what could be variants of known viruses or completely new viruses.

[Information]
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Microsoft Macro Virus Detector

The macro virus detector is a macro detector for Microsoft Word version 6 or later. The detector scans for the Concept virus and installs a macro that scans every document you open with the File-Open command and displays a dialog box if the document contains a macro.

[Download]Download from CIAC

Microsoft's Macro Virus Information Pages (includes scanner downloads)

Windows Versions of the tools


Symantec Antivirus for Mac Updates

SAM is a commercial antivirus product for the Macintosh from Symantec. Updates are available from their web site or from the Symantec BBS at (503) 484-6669 and from the Symantec FTP site ftp://ftp.symantec.com. Copies of some of the updates are available on the CIAC archive. The 4.0.8 update finds and removes most Word macro viruses.

[Download]Symantec Virus Research Center
[Download] CIAC Archive: SAM 4.0.x to 4.0.8 update
[Download] CIAC Archive: SAM 4.0 2/96 virus definitions
[Download] CIAC Archive: SAM 3.0 8/95 virus definitions


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