How does Microscope handle viruses?
A. There is a fixed disk sector editor in Micro-Scope that allows you to view and modify any data anywhere on the surface of the platter – even those reserved areas that are normally off limits to DOS utilities, like track Zero, for example. That is very handy if you have to do any repair or reconstruction of the Master Boot Record or Partition Tables, perhaps due to a virus contamination. In fact one of the menu items in Micro-Scope is called ‘Rebuild Master Boot’ and it is a completely automatic function. We include this function since about 80% of the common viruses attach themselves to the Master Boot Record. Micro-Scope does a destructive low level format, just on Sector 0 to wipe out the virus and then it automatically writes a DOS Master Boot Record in its place. The entire procedure takes less than a second and provides for instant access to the data on the drive.
