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Virus Script Suite: History
2.04 3/21/95:
-Changed the VSUITE.DOC file to note a problem discovered when
using Novell-style names with 4DOS piping.
-Redid the order of the HISTORY file to put the most recent changes
first in the list (wow).
-Changed some installer text to reflect the Novell naming problems
I had found.
-Corrected some of the code in the reporting section which could
cause some machines to not report anything other than date and
time when a virus problem was found.
2.03 2/21/95:
-Added a direct path to the .bat file which calls the scanner,
speeding up network access.
-Made the check for Windows in the scripts look only for Windows
running in 386 Enhanced mode (which is the only mode with 32 bit
disk access).
-Added a check for the temporary directory on the local drive when
the scanner is called, and create it if it does not exist.
-Reduced the free diskspace needed on local machines for the F-Prot
files closer to the actual size of the F-Prot file sizes.
2.02 1/17/95:
-Fixed a problem in the reporting section of the script which
caused the user's name to not appear on reports some times.
-Removed unnecessary code, to the tune of about a dozen lines, to
help the speed of the scanner.
2.01 12/06/94:
-Corrected a bug that stored the virus reports on the wrong path,
making them invisible to the scripts.
-Fixed some screen alignments, changed a few colors for better
contrast on dark screens.
2.0 12/05/94:
-Complete rewrite from scratch. Now, the system no longer requires
the UNIX-like utils GREP and SED and such. Also, you don't have to
have a mail system running to use this utility, nor do you need as
much memory (scripts were optimized).
-Memory scanned upon entering the script, not upon the first disk
scan.
-Reporting is handled via an extended VCHECK script now, and
reports are not mailed to you, but instead displayed and then
archived upon your logging into the server.
-Checks added for numerous things, such as environment space and
whether or not a user is running the script from under Windows
(which for system handling reasons I feel it's best to run virus
scanning software from plain old DOS).
-The installer was completely rewritten as well. More useful
information is put onscreen during installation, and the
implementation was thought out instead of being hacked together.
-Alert Messages changed, and now instead of just giving the user a
brief description, a thorough description of any problems
encountered during scanning are presented.
-New interface, which is (so I hear) easier to use.
-HELP file included within the scanner now, to give people who
don't have a clue how to scan or why to scan, a clue.
-Screentext and documentation were checked for speling errers.
1.5 8/1/94:
-Edited the release after discovery of a new version of F-Prot
which had hit the SimTel archives the same morning. Now, the
scanner can detect a seventh type of problem: questionable files.
This will not really affect anyone using the scripts unedited
since the heuristic scan option is not used, but I put in a check
for it just in case. If you do use the heuristic option in the
scanner (check the F-Prot documentation for more on how to add
this option), and a questionable file is found, the station will
NOT lock down (as it would have otherwise), but the user is
notified that a questionable file was found, and the virus report
and summary files are updated and forwarded to you, as if there
had been an identifiable string.
-Fixed a mailer bug; virus reports were being labelled incorrectly.
-Cleaned up a minor screen bug.
1.4 8/1/94:
-First public release, included an installer. Likely the shortest
lived release in the history of computers. Added report code in a
new reliease of F-Prot required an update five minutes after I had
posted the archive.
1.3 7/94:
-Pre-release beta; Reprogrammed and redesigned for
universal implementation.
1.0-1.2 7/94:
-Local scripts. Designed and implemented as a single server
solution.