## HyperCard Virus Compendium

Eliminating and preventing viruses

> Vaccine is a free HyperCard virus utility written by Bill Swagerty
>  that will inspect all the stacks on your hard drive, or any part of
> it, for most HyperCard viruses.
>
> Virus Scripts is a free Inoculation by Jacqueline Landman Gay
>  that prevents specific viruses from getting in.

Vaccine 4.3, new as of 5/6/00, has been rewritten and updated to
include virus checking and eradication routines for all the recently-
discovered viruses, including Antibody, Independance Day [sic], Blink,
and Wormcode.

Besides finding and eliminating HyperCard viruses in your stacks, it
will offer to compact each stack to eliminate free space (which can
reduce the "false positive" reports from other virus checkers) and it
can lock your Home stack against future attacks if you choose.

The Preferences card allows you full control over Vaccine's mode of
operation, and reporting features have been updated as well.

This is an excellent utility, and because it is HyperCard-based, it is
able to use a more reliable detection method than commercial virus
utilities.

Vaccine will eliminate MerryXmas, all MerryXmas clones, HC 9507
(Pickle), Antibody, Blink, and Wormcode, and will check for and alert
you to the presence of Independance Day.
This utility is highly recommended for every stack-owner's arsenal.

Update 5/6/00: Version 4.3 is a new release, which adds detection and
eradication of the Wormcode virus, and corrects a bug that sometimes
caused Vaccine to fail to recognize the Antibody virus.

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? DL #1 Vaccine v 4.3 (2000)
? DL #2 Virus Scripts (1998)
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Anything related to HyperCard Antivirus can be added to this page.
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See also other works by [Jacqueline Landman Gay][1] and [HyperActive
Software][2]

Compatibility

Requirements
Vaccine 4 requires System 7.0 or later, and HyperCard v2.2 or later.

Memory
It is recommended that HyperCard's Preferred Size be set to 2000K or
more. The more, the merrier.

Version 4 has been tested and found to be compatible with HyperCard
versions 2.2 through 2.4.1.

  [1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/author/jacqueline-landman-gay
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/author/hyperactive-software