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Boot Protector

Basic Information

  • Version: 2.82
  • Author: Fantomas (Michel GOUX)
  • Program Language: French
  • Release Date: 11/12/2024
  • Recognizes 515 boot sectors

Main Description

Boot Protector 2.82 (1993-2024) is an antivirus program written by Michel GOUX that recognizes 515 boot sectors, 21 of which are viruses. Let's explore the interface! The antivirus warns us that we are infected right when launching the program:

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Interface

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We can select disk A/B and scan it.

Preferences

  1. Choose text color for numbers in the Disk Infos tab and for the "Executable" label in the bootsector tab (2 colors)

  2. Choose interface color and the color of the floppy disk illustration (2 colors)

  3. Enable/disable music

  4. Save settings

Disk Infos

  1. View disk information: number of sides, number of tracks, sectors per track

Bootsector

  1. Bottom label indicates whether the boot sector is executable

  2. Recognized boot sectors are displayed in the window below

  3. View boot sector in ASCII by clicking the SHOW button

Music

  1. Select music from author's included tracks using Load button

  2. Play selected music using Play button

  3. Stop music using Stop button

Latest features

  • Info: displays information about the author.

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  • Quit: Exit to the desktop.

  • Vaccine: Vaccinate the disk against viruses with boot protect v2.82

  • Normal/Automatic mode:

  • In this mode, everything happens automatically. You just need to insert the floppy disks into drive A. They will be checked automatically, and if a virus is detected, the program will offer to vaccinate the floppy disk (RETURN button — vaccination, ESC — skip).

    1. Other functions (Information, Exit, Display, Music, etc.) are not available in AUTOMATIC mode.

    2. F1 to switch between modes.

    3. The current mode is displayed on the screen above the syringe.

Vaccine

When booting from the Boot Protect vaccine disk, we see this:

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Boot Protector 1

This antivirus has a first version and it looked like this:

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Virus Test

  • ACA

  • Macumba 3.3

  • Merlin's Mad

  • Non-Executable EICAR Virus

  • Oli

Test results

  1. Boot Protector said it is an unidentified executable boot sector.

  2. Boot Protector said it is an unidentified executable boot sector.

  3. Boot Protector correctly identified Merlin's Mad virus.

  4. Boot Protector said it is an unidentified non-executable boot sector.

  5. Boot Protector correctly identified the OLI virus.

In conclusion

A rather interesting virus killer that is still being updated. You can buy version 2.82 from the creator. 5/10