S&S International

S&S International were the authors of Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit - a prominent early DOS anti-virus product.

Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit

First released in 1991, Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus was a complete suite of anti-virus tools including prevention, detection and repair. It was so called after its author, Alan Solomon of S&S International. It was later acquired by McAfee Associates (then owned by Network Associates) in June 1998 for $642m.

Version 4.21 came out in 1989(?)

In 1991, S&S released version 5.18.

  
 
Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit Version 5.18 for DOS

In 1993, version 6.5 was launched. Comprising FINDVIRUS, GUARDMEM, CLEANBOOT/CLEANPART, and the Virus Encyclopaedia. It ran in DOS or Windows. The main hub of the toolkit is called TOOLKIT, and gives you access to all the other tools, although the scanner (FINDVIRU), the in-memory guard (GUARDMEM) and partition data backup/restore tool (CLEANPAR) are accessible directly from the DOS prompt. The virus encyclopaedia is only accessible via the TOOLKIT.

A free sample copy of 6.5 was provided on a cover disk for PC Magazine in late 1992 - this version only scanned and repaired the top 20 viruses at the time (plus a few other variants of the same), which were Stoned, Chinese Fish, Disk Killer, Exebug, Form, Installation Check, Joshi, June 4th, Telefonica boot, Laodoung, Michelangelo, Noint, Tequila partition, V-Sign, CR, Cascade.1701, Cascade.1704, Dark Avenger 1800, Dark Avenger 2100, Exebug file, Exebug file2, Green Caterpillar, Installation Check, Jerusalem, Tequila, and Yankee Doodle.44.

   
  
  

This version ran FINDVIRU v6.13Z. I have virus definitions (drivers) dated 5/3/1993.

A few final versions were produced, such as 7.62, 7.69 and 7.72, launched in June 1997.

Version 8.5, under Network Associates but still carrying the Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus name was launched in 19xx.

To download any of these versions or just the separate virus definition sets, please visit the Anti-Virus Utilities page.