Disinfectant
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Disinfectant was the Mac's best free antivirus software, until it was retired by its creator due to the surge of macro viruses, which he decided not to support for lack of manpower (he was the only maintainer).
Use it to scan the classic Mac programs you download, even if they're post-1997. (Then use Agax or Virex to scan for Sevendust.)
NOTE:
Version 3.4.1 is available as a bin-hexed StuffIt archive on the NCSA FTP Site
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Utilities/Disinfectant3.4.1.sit.hqx
It is compatible with System 3.2 - System 6 according to http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectant
This is version 3.7.1, the final release. Version 1.2 is also uploaded for legacy purposes.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k
[Warning]: When scanning for viruses, Disinfectant does not look inside compressed archives such as common ".sit" or ".zip" files etc.
Before running any installer or executable application or self-running documents (such as "eDoc" & "DocMaker" files) - You must extract the contents of any compressed files 1st then check their contents with Disinfectant.
Comments
Thanks for the John Norstad screenshots, Laurier.
Added more screenshots.
Haha I have version 2.7.2 (I think) someplace
[Note]:
Disinfectant does not look inside compressed archives such as common ".sit" files. You must extract the contents of any downloads and then check them with Disinfectant before running any installer or executable application or self-running documents (such as "eDoc" & "DocMaker" files).
An excellent piece of software, and one of those applications you couldn't live without, as it removed all the viruses from the games you downloaded off your dial-up connection to BBS's.
It is also a great database of all (at the time) known viruses made for Macintosh.
And if you get depressed to see how infected your computer is, Disinfectant can cheer you up by playing the "Monty Python" theme.
It's good that you uploaded Disinfectant. A StuffIt Deluxe package from here is infected!
Nice that someone bothers about old Mac's security.
You got viruses from here? Reading this, I immediately installed Disinfectant, but it didn't find anything on my computer. Pooh!
I LOVE this application. It does exactly what it promises. I didn't realize several applications I had were infected (probably from downloading crap from this site (no offense)). As far as Microsoft Word macro viruses, I'm not sure why one would be using such software in the first place!