Basic information

• Author: George R. Woodside
• Program language: English
• Version 3.84
• Creation date: April 1991
• Can detect boot sectors

Main text

When we enter, we are greeted with a warning.

After that, we select drive A/B and enter the main menu.

At the top, we see tabs... Let's quickly run through them!

1. Desk

2. File

3. Options

4. Here you can view information about the author.

1. Here you can exit the program and select the file selector

2. Here you can:

   1. Quiet

   2. System Info

   3. Test Kill

   4. Extra Zeroing

      1. Apparently disables sounds in the program?

      2. Displays system information

      

      

Main functionality

1. You can check drive A/B.

2. You can view the boot sector in HEX and ASCII simultaneously! Function: Show

3. You can print all data or just the boot sector! Function: Print

4. You can write the boot sector to a file! Function: File

5. You can kill the boot sector! Function: Kill

6. You can put a vaccine in the boot sector! Function: Guard

7. You can repair the boot sector if the BPB is damaged! Function: Repair

8. You can exit the program! Function: Quit

Information about boot sectors

If Vkiller recognizes a boot sector, you can find out information about it by clicking the “Boot sector recognized!” button.

Vaccine

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

Virus Test

• ACA

• Macumba 3.3

• Merlin's Mad

• Non-Executable EICAR Virus

• Oli

Test results

1. Vkiller correctly identified the ACA virus.

2. Vkiller said that extra sectors are not zeroed and the boot sector is executable.

3. Vkiller said that extra sectors are not zeroed and the boot sector is executable.

4. Vkiller said that extra sectors are not zeroed and the boot sector is not zeroed, but the disk is safe.

5. Vkiller correctly identified the OLI virus.

In conclusion

This is basically an average virus killer that can detect some interesting viruses. 5/10