November 1994 XMONKEY ------- Monkey is a common boot-mbr infector. When there is more than one 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 remove Monkey from all drives and recover access to all drives, if due to the improper removal of Monkey. XMONKEY will seek for up to 8 chained hard drives. 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. XMONKEY is donated to the public domain. InVircible (tm), the disk crash recovery and generic antivirus expert system, is available on BBS and anonymous ftp. InVircible is freeware to the private PC user. Go for: ftp.netcom.com/pub/antivir/invircible/inv601a.zip or to the author's ftp, ftp.datasrv.co.il/user/netz/invb601a.zip. Look also on the same ftp's for other titles: avpl101.zip The Anti Virus Practice Lab fixboot.zip Floppy boot sector fixing utility, and SwapBoot, contained in the same package. Zvi Netiv, NetZ Computing Ltd. Israel, Fax +972 3 5325325 -----------------------------------------------------------------------