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Mon 06 October 2025
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The Killer

Basic information

  • Version 2.04
  • Year of creation: 1989
  • Author: E. Collignon
  • Program language: French

Main part

The program interface is small compared to Sagrotan or Toxis, but I will tell you what each button does! Interface:

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  • Quitter

  • Lecteur

  • Dur

  • Page

  • Visualiser

  • Tuer

  • Ajouter

  • Biblio

  • Option

  • Info

What are they doing?

  1. Exit the program to the desktop

  2. Switch to another drive

  3. Select a hard drive

  4. View the boot sector (100 - 1FF )

  5. View the boot sector

  6. Write the vaccine to the disk

  7. Add something? This caused an error for me!

  8. List of what The Killer recognizes

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  1. Killer settings

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  1. Author information

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Vaccine

This antivirus has its own vaccine, and when you boot up, you'll see this:

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Virus Test

If a virus is detected, The Killer's boot sector will notify us and offer to destroy the virus that is trying to infect the disk. If you enter The Killer with a virus in the boot sector, it will emit ambulance sounds and display this screen.

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  • ACA

  • Macumba 3.3

  • Merlin's Mad

  • Non-Executable EICAR Virus

  • Oli

Test results

  1. The Killer said it is Sowatt demo 80%.

  2. The Killer said it does not recognize this boot sector.

  3. The Killer said it is the boot sector of the AMC game.

  4. The Killer correctly identified the Magic Word virus.

  5. The Killer correctly identified the OLI virus.

In conclusion

A decent virus killer that shows the percentage of matches with its library. 5/10