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- åSample Report
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- The following example shows a report generated by a disinfection run on a
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- Scores-infected hard disk drive.
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- My Hard Drive
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- Disk disinfection run started.
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- 12/16/88, 10:04:12 AM.
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- My Hard Drive
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- My Programs
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- Games
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- SuperGame
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 11/2/88, 11:15:03 PM.
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- File repaired.
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- My Hard Drive
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- My Programs
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- Word Processors
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- MacWrite
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/15/88, 5:02:49 PM.
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- File repaired.
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- My Hard Drive
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- System Folder
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- Desktop
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:40 PM.
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- File deleted.
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- My Hard Drive
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- System Folder
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- Finder
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/14/88, 3:02:24 PM.
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- File repaired.
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- My Hard Drive
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- System Folder
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- Note Pad File
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:34 PM.
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- File repaired.
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- My Hard Drive
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- System Folder
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- Scores
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:33 PM.
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- File deleted.
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- My Hard Drive
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- System Folder
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- Scrapbook File
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:35 PM.
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- File repaired.
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- My Hard Drive
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- System Folder
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- System
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- ### File infected by Scores.
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- Last modification 12/13/88, 2:48:40 PM.
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- File repaired.
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- My Hard Drive
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- Disk disinfection run completed.
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- 12/16/88, 10:08:30 AM.
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- Summary:
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- 984 total files.
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- 0 errors.
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- 8 files infected by Scores.
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- 8 infected files total.
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- Earliest infected file: SuperGame
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- Last modification 11/2/88, 11:15:03 PM.
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- The last modification dates in the report are sometimes useful for
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- tracking down the history and source of an infection. The infected
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- application with the earliest last modification date is often the source of
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- the infection.
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- E.g., in the sample report above, SuperGame is the earliest infected
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- application, with a last modification date of 11/2. The System file was
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- last modified on 12/13. If you obtained your copy of SuperGame sometime
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- after 11/2, and if you first ran it on or before 12/13, then SuperGame
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- was probably the source of the infection. You should contact the source of
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- the application and tell them that their software is probably infected too.
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- You should likewise contact anybody else to whom you have given copies
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- of SuperGame or any of your other infected files, because their software
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- may also be infected.
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- If Disinfectant’s report notes that a System file is the earliest infected
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- file, this means that the application that caused the original infection of
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- your system is no longer on, or never was on, the disk being scanned.
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- Check all your other disks (hard drives and floppies) to attempt to locate
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- the file that introduced the virus to your system.
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- This kind of analysis is not infallible, but it can sometimes be useful in
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- tracing back a chain of infections.
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- The ZUC, Frankie, and MBDF viruses do not change the modification date
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- when they infect a file, so this kind of analysis will not help locate the
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- source of an infection by one of those viruses. This kind of analysis is also
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- useless when trying to locate the source of a WDEF or CDEF infection,
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- since those viruses only infect Finder Desktop files, which are constantly
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- being modified legitimately by the Finder.
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