Boot Virus Remover

Too many users have unnecessarily formatted their hard drive because of simple boot virus infection. There is no reason that you become one of them. The program offered here for download will let you remove any boot virus from your first (boot) hard drive, without needing to boot clean, in a few simple keystrokes.

Note that this utility should only be used on hard drives running under DOS, and Windows 95/98 and that were configured with FDISK. If your hard drive was configured with other programs such as Partition Magic or had a boot manager installed, you are then advised to consult you program's documentation on how to repair/reinstall a defective boot system.

• First, download IVINIT.EXE to your hard drive by clicking the link
• Next, restart the computer to plain DOS by pressing the F8 key as soon as you see the the message "Loading Windows ..."
• When at the command prompt, change to the directory where you put the download and run the program by typing IVINIT and then 'Enter'
• Follow instructions on screen, and answer 'yes' twice, first when prompted to remove the virus, and then to reboot the computer. The computer will now reboot clean.
• After having rebooted clean, process all your floppies with FIXBOOT, to prevent reinfection of your hard drive.

IVINIT is part of InVircible, the world's most complete Generic Virus Protection Suit. For thorough protection of your computer and valuable data you may wish to download the complete InVircible package.

Excel Worksheet Macro Analyzer

IVXLMac analyses Excel worksheets for the presence of macros, without requiring the opening of the file with Excel and risking infection by a macro virus. New macro viruses found this way can be added immediately to the InVircible macro list and processed right away.

FixBoot

FixBoot is a generic boot sector cleaner for floppies. It refreshes the boot sector by overwriting the existing sector with a clean one. FixBoot can process floppies with capacities from 360 Kbytes to 2.88 Mbytes.

FixBoot will automatically identify the capacity of the floppy and install a clean boot sector for the same floppy size. FixBoot can also be used to regain access to an inaccessible floppy, such as after being infected by a boot infectors, by using FixBoot with the /S (size) switch.

Bootable floppies will maintain their booting capability after being processed by FixBoot, for the following operating systems: MS DOS, PC DOS/DR DOS (IBM) and Windows 95/98, including FAT-32 compatibility.

FixBoot can be used to processes floppies in bulk. All the user need to do is to answer 'Yes' when prompted if to process another floppy.

XMonkey

Monkey is a common boot-MBR infector. When there is more than a single hard drive on a computer, all the hard drives' partition sectors will be affected too. While Monkey is active in memory, all drive will still be accessible. If the virus is removed from the first (master) hard
drive, without taking care of drive 2 and higher, all access to the higher drives will be lost.

XMonkey will automatically remove Monkey from up to eight chained hard drives.

XMonkey will also recover access to hard drives that were affected by Monkey and ruined by improper procedures such as FDISK /MBR, or Norton Disk Doctor etc. In such case, run XMonkey with the /U switch.

Since XMonkey uses the SeeThru (c) technique, embedded in InVircible, it will function even if the virus is active in memory. XMonkey can be used from the infected hard drive itself, or from a floppy diskette, after booting clean from DOS.

XOneHalf

One_Half is a relatively common file and MBR infector which has unique properties. XOneHalf is a dedicated disinfector from the One_Half virus. The attached program has been made available, courtesy of Dr. Peter Hubinski, from SAC - the Slovak Antivirus Center. To disinfect a hard drive, use the program of a write protected, clean boot floppy. Run with the /? switch for help.