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        Documentation of AntiCicloVir V2.4:        28.10.1994
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Table of Contents:

1. Copyright

2. How to use AntiCicloVir

3. Scan memory for viruses

4. Scan directories for viruses

5. How to handle with packers

6. Scan bootsectors for viruses

7. Scan disk-validators for viruses

8. Description of some well-known viruses:

    - SCA

    - BGS9
    - Bret Hawnes
    - Disaster-Master

    - IRQ
    - Golden Rider

    - SADDAM

9. Mail










            Copyright

AntiCicloVir is now Public Domain Software and that means, you can use this
viruskiller for personal or commercial work !
You can use this program for scanning in your own system for viruses, or you can
install it on your own Public Domain disks, or sell it to anyone to any prices.
You may read the assembly-language source code, put some routines out from it
into your own program, or change some parts of or add new parts to the source
code.
If you`re programming in assembly-language, then you will see, that it is very
simple, to update the viruskiller, so that he will detect new viruses in memory,
files and on disk !
You may use the source code of AntiCicloVir as base for a new own viruskiller !
But there are some limits !!!!!!
You may not spread such a changed program by using the name `AntiCicloVir`,
because I will write more (& better) versions of AntiCicloVir in the future,
and I think, it won`t be useful, if there exists more than one program using the
same name !!!!!!
Further it is not allowed, to change any part of this documentation or of the
file VIRUSLIST.DOC !!!

Well, I hope there doesn`t exist any serious, nasty ugly bugs in the assembly-
language source code of AntiCicloVir, but I think, it doesn`t exist any
program without any bug, so that I can`t give any guarantee for the error-free
work of the viruskiller AntiCicloVir ...
I can`t take the responsibility for any damage, directly or indirectly caused
by the correctly or uncorrectly use of AntiCicloVir !
That means for example too, if your hardware or software were damaged by a
virus, which AntiCicloVir didn`t detect, I will not take the responsibility for
that !
But I hope, that something like the above mentioned will not happen.





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            How to use AntiCicloVir

AntiCicloVir is a small but smart viruskiller, who shall be simple to use like
VirusX.
It isn`t hard to deal with AntiCicloVir.
Today there appears more and more superviruskillers, but more and more novices
have problems, to use this killers efficiencly, because with the time they became
so complicate, so that you at first have, to read Gigabytes of DOC-files, if you
want to know, how to use this superviruskiller most efficiencly ...
If you want to use AntiCicloVir, you have only, to read this small DOC-file and,
to know some things:

AntiCicloVir is more a virushunter than a viruskiller !
It can detect viruses in memory, but it won`t remove them from memory, because
it doesn`t change any vectors !
Today I have not the ROM addresses of all vectors from all ROM versions, because
I have not so many money like some antivirus-freaks, to buy all AMIGA models
selled by Commodore ...

In some cases it will be enough, if you let restore some reset-vectors by
AntiCicloVir, to remove a virus from memory !!!
After that it`s better, to cause a reset, so that the whole virus will be removed
from system, if it doesn`t can survive the reset !!!

Because the small length of AntiCicloVir (27 kB) it will be useful, to call it
up from your startup-sequence.
Copy AntiCicloVir into your subdirectory c and call it up from your startup-
sequence by using the option `-c` for fast memory-check !
Now, while you reboot from this disk, AntiCicloVir will be started and shows the
addresses of some important ROM vectors to you and checks the memory for all
known viruses.

If AntiCicloVir has found any virus in memory, then order the viruskiller, to
restore the reset-vector and cause a reset by yourself !
After one reboot from a clean disk run AntiCicloVir again, to see, if the virus
is still standing in memory !

To scan bootsectors of disk for viruses, please start AntiCicloVir by using
the option `-m` from the Shell or calling it from the Workbench.
AntiCicloVir will check every disk in all connected  floppydrives, if you
have insert one !.
AntiCicloVir will not only check the bootsectors of every disk, but the disk-
validator of the inserted disk, too.

If you want to scan your disks for file- and linkviruses, please use AntiCicloVir
from the Shell:
Enter the name of AntiCicloVir and add the pathname of the directory, you want
to scan for viruses !

You see, it is very simple, to use AntiCicloVir !!!

But that`s not all about AntiCicloVir ...

The viruskiller will be much stronger, if you use the antivirus.libraries
from Safe Hex International with him !
These libraries aren`t necessary to get AntiCicloVir started, but they will
modify AntiCicloVir in some important points !
Before you can use these libraries, you have to install them !
You will find all needed libraries in the subdirectory libs from the
subdirectory, which is including AntiCicloVir.
Please copy the contents from this libs-directory into the libs-directory
onto your Workbench Disk !
After that, you have to copy the contents from the subdirectory l, which is
standing too in the same subdirectory like AntiCicloVir, to the subdirectory
l from your Workbench Disk !

These libraries will support AntiCicloVir in the following points:

- The Bootblock.library will support the bootsector-scan, so that AntiCicloVir
  now can find more bootblock viruses than `only` the 188, it knows by itself !
  Now, it`ll find additional all bootblock viruses, the Bootblock.library knows !
  A lot of thanks for this excellent work has to go to:

    Johan Eliasson
    Baeckgatan 6
    60358 Norrkoeping
    Sweden

- The removelink.library will support the directory- and memory-scan, so that
  AntiCicloVir now can find more file-, link-, diskvalidator-viruses, trojan
  horses and bombs than `only` the 78, it knows by itself !
  Now, it`ll find additional all file-, link-, diskvalidator-viruses, trojan
  horses and bombs, the removelink.library knows !
  A lot of thanks for this excellent work has to go to:

    Johan Oehman
    Matematikgrand 13B
    90733 Umea¢
    Sweden

- The unpack.library now makes it possible, that AntiCicloVir can decrunch
  packed files, to find file-, link-, diskvalidator-viruses, trojan horses
  or bombs, hidden to it !!!
  NOTE: If you don`t use the unpack.library, AntiCicloVir will only recognize
  some archives, crunchers and packers, but not decrunch these files ...
  A lot of thanks for this excellent work has to go to:

    Thomas Neumann
    Kongensgade 78
    3550 Slangerup
    Denmark


Now, it`s possible, to update AntiCicloVir by yourself ...
... you only have to get the newest versions of the Bootblock.library,
removelink.library and the unpack.library from Safe Hex International, and
your version of AntiCicloVir will find more viruses and decrunch more new
archives, crunched and packed files than before !!!
A lot of mega-thanks also has to go to Safe Hex International !!!























             Scan Memory for viruses

If you run AntiCicloVir by using the option `-m` or calling it up from the
Workbench, the viruskiller at first will display you the addresses of some
important system-vectors.
If one of the reset-vectors ColdCapture, CoolCapture or KickTagPtr isn`t
pointing to zero, AntiCicloVir will bring up a requester, to ask you, if it
shall restore this changed vector.
The other reset-vectors WarmCapture, KickMemPtr and KickCheckSum can`t be
used alone without the above mentioned vectors by a virus !

AntiCicloVir does not check the addresses of the ROM vectors and can not reset
them to their orign addresses !
But every virus is hanging around by one of the above mentioned reset-vectors,
to survive the reset, and that`s the point, where AntiCicloVir will detect every
new unknown virus !

AntiCicloVir shows you the addresses from some important vectors of the Exec-
Base-structure, the exec.library, the dos.library, the intuition.library, the
trackdisk. & keyboard.device.

If you have started AntiCicloVir by using the option `-c`, AntiCicloVir will
run a fast memory-check.

If AntiCicloVir has found one known virus in memory, it will bring up a requester,
to warn you.
But it can`t remove a virus from memory, because AntiCicloVir doesn`t reset any
origin ROM addresses !!!
Please restore the reset-vectors by using AntiCicloVir, and cause a reset, to
wipe out one virus from memory, or turn off your AMIGA !
If you have restored the reset-vectors and caused a reset, please reboot from
a clean disk, and check the memory again with AntiCicloVir, if the virus is or
is not still standing in memory ...
Please use the removelink.library, to support the memory-scan !











            Scan Directories for viruses

If you wish to scan the main- or some sub-directories of your disks, you have
at first, to change into the Shell, to start AntiCicloVir by its name followed by
the pathname of the directory, you wish to scan.
But, if you want, you can scan only one file, if you add the pathname of one
file to the filename of AntiCicloVir.

AntiCicloVir displays all filenames of one subdirectory, the setting of their
Protection-Bits, the filelength and, if available, one comment to this file.
Further it can check the contents of the files for executable code, code of
archives, crunchers and packers and code of file-,link-,
Disk-Validator-viruses and Bombs & Trojan Horses !
If one of this above mentioned nasty dump was found in a file, AntiCicloVir
will add a message to the filename and bring up a Requester, to give you the
choice, to kill this virus or not.

If you add the option `-all` to the pathname of the directory, you want to
scan, then AntiCicloVir scans all subdirectories including in this directory !
Please note the following two examples:

1. AntiCicloVir df0: -all (scans all directories & subdirectories from df0:)
2. AntiCicloVir "Workbench Disk:"-all (scans all directories & subdirectories
                           from "Workbench Disk")

AntiCicloVir can not remove invisible commands from the startup-sequence !
If you have removed one filevirus by using AntiCicloVir, please look in your
startup-sequence by using a file-monitor or for example the Shell command
Type for invisible signs, which fileviruses use, to callup themselves ...
You have to delete this invisible signs by using the backspace-key or you will
get the error unknown command, every time, you boot from this disk !

Further AntiCicloVir will scan in every called directory every filename for
invisible signs, so that it will detect complete new fileviruses, which it didn`t
know at this time !!!
This is very useful ...
Please send every new invisible file to my address !
Thanx !

Please use removelink.library & unpack.library, to support the directory-scan !
NOTE: If you don`t use the unpack.library, AntiCicloVir only will recognize
      some archives, crunchers and packers, it knows by itself, but not
      decrunch these files, to look for hidden viruses in them !!!
















            How to handle with packers

Today, there appears more and more new archives, crunchers and packers for
the AMIGA, to get more stuff on one disk than without them ...
But the worst fact of these utilities is, that many worsis have no problems,
to hide their file- or linkviruses, trojan horses or bombs to such archives,
crunched or packed files, to camouflage them for any viruskiller ...
If one viruskiller checks such a crunched file, which includes a linkvirus,
then he doesn`t recognize it, except he knows this one cruncher and can
decrunch the file ...
Well, I`m sorry about that AntiCicloVir can`t decrunch files, but only display
some archives, crunchers and packers ...
But, if you use the unpack.library by Thomas Neumann with AntiCicloVir, which
is including in the subdirectory libs, which is including in the same sub-
directory like AntiCicloVir, then AntiCicloVir will recognize a lot of
archives, crunched and packed files and decrunch them before checking them
of file-, linkviruses, trojan horses and bombs !!!



















            Scan Bootsectors for viruses

To scan the bootsectors of your disks for bootblock-viruses, you have to start
AntiCicloVir by given the option `-m` to the Shell name or by running it up
from the workbench.
After showing to you the system-vectors and some important ROM addresses and
passing the memory-check, AntiCicloVir will install an Intuition Window ledge
at the top of the current screen and waits now for every new inserted disk !
AntiCicloVir can check the bootsectors of every disks in all connected
floppydrives !!!
If AntiCicloVir had found a known bootblock-virus, it will create a requester
and ask you, if it shall install a new bootblock, to kill this virus ...
Please use the Bootblock.library, to support the bootsector-scan !




















            Scan Disk-Validator for viruses

To scan the disk-validator of your disks for disk-validator-viruses, you have
to start AntiCicloVir by given the option `-m` to the Shell name or running it
up from the workbench.
After showing to you the system-vectors and some important ROM addresses and
passing the memory-check, AntiCicloVir will install an Intuition Window ledge
at the top of the current screen and waits now for every disk, you inserts into
the current drive.
If any disk-validator-virus was found on this disk, it will create a requester
and give to you the choice, to kill this disk-validator-virus or not.










            Description of some well-known viruses:

- SCA:

    This was the first virus on the AMIGA !!!
    It stays in the first two sectors of a disk in track 0, called the
    bootblock.
    Every time you boot from such an infected disk, the SCA virus will
    copy itself to an absolute memory-position in CHIP-RAM at $7EC00.
    After that it checks if the dos.library is resident and stops the
    program, until the dos.library is really resident.
    The SCA virus sets the CoolCapture vector to its own address at
    $7EC3E and sleeps as long as you reboot your machine ...
    Further it calculates a new CheckSum for the ExecBase structure.
    Now, if you reboot your computer, the virus will remove the address
    of the ROM vector DoIO () and set its own address into this vector.
    If the AMIGA tries, to start his own IORequest by using the ROM-routine
    DoIO (), to boot from one disk, the SCA virus will be active and change
    the IORequest for its own use, to write the code from the memory-
    position $7EC00 to the first two sectors of track 0, called the boot-
    block ...
    After that it sets the orign ROM address into the vector of DoIO ().
    The SCA virus causes no damage, but displays a message like that:

    `Something wonderful has happened.
     Your AMIGA is alive !!!
      and, even better ...`
     some of your disks are infected by a VIRUS
     Another masterpiece of The Mega-Mighty SCA !!`

    Viruses like SCA, we do call bootblock viruses !



- BGS 9 I+II

This filevirus possibly is a mutation of the filevirus Terrorists.
This one stands upside the crowd, because all other fileviruses uses another
mechanism, to spread itself ...
The BGS9 virus looks for the first executable program from your startup-
sequence and writes it from his real place to the subdirectory `DEVS:` or if
it can`t find this subdirectory to the main-directory and gives him an
invisible name, which is called in hexadecimal $A0A0A0202020A0202020A0 !
After executing the first program from the startup-sequence of an infected
disk, which is the BGS9 virus, the virus installs itself in memory and
executes the original program, which stands invisible in `DEVS:` !
In memory the BGS9 virus uses the residents, to turn on itself after a reset !
It sets KickMemPtr , KickTagPtr  & KickCheckSum.
While every reset it sets the vector OpenWindow () from the intuition.library
to its own address.
After every using of OpenWindow () the virus tries, to copy itself, like the
above mentioned mechanism, onto the next disk or shows you after four resets the
following message:



            A COMPUTER VIRUS IS A
                   DISEASE

               TERRORISM IS A
                      TRANSGRESSION

            SOFTWARE PIRACY IS A
                CRIME

             THIS IS THE CURE


BBBBBB    GGGGGG    SSSSSS    999999
B     B   G        S         9     9
B     B   G        S         9     9      Bundesgrenzschutz Sektion 9
B     B   G         S         999999      Sonderkommando "EDV"
BBBBBB    G  GGG     SSS           9
B     B   G    G        SS         9
B     B   G    G          SS       9
B     B   G    G           S       9
BBBBBB    GGGGGG    SSSSSSS    99999

The BGS9 virus sets the OpenWindow ()-vector to its ROM-address, while the
first using of this routine !
This virus is very harmless and causes no damage !
It works from KickStart 1.2 to OS3.01 !
The BGS9 virus II works in all points like the old BGS9 virus.
It differs from the old one in a new coding of one ASCII-sign and in a new
invisible name : $A0E0A0202020A0202020A0



- Bret Hawnes

This one is a classical form of a filevirus !
It`s very easy to deal with that 2608 bytes long program.
On infected disks you could find it as invisible file in the root-directory:
$C0A0E0A0C0 !
But it isn`t very invisible !
Indeed you can`t see it in the startup-sequence, but if you list up the root-
directory of an infected disk, you can see some irregulare signs ...
The Bret Hawnes virus also copies itself as invisible file on every disk and
writes its name in the startup-sequence.
After every running of the startup-sequence the Bret Hawnes virus will be activate !
It stands every time at $7F000 in memory and sets the pointer KickTagPtr &
KickCheckSum & $6c (interrupt).
At every time you causes a reset, the Bret Hawnes virus will be activated by
the Kick-pointer !
It sets the OpenLibrary ()-vector to its own address and waits for the right time, when
it can set the OpenWindow ()-vector.
After that it sets OpenLibrary () to its ROM address.
Bret Hawnes now, tries about the first calling for OpenWindow (), to get a chance,
to copy itself from memory to disk !
After that it sets the OpenWindow ()-vector to its ROM address, too.
Instead the tenth increasing the virus destroys some tracks of your disks ...
After twenty minutes it shows the following message to you:

    GUESS WHO`S BACK ??? VEP. BRET HAWNES BLOPS
    YOUR SCREEN
    I`VE TAKEN THE CONTROL OVER YOUR AMIGA!!!
    THERE`S ONLY ONE CURE: POWER OFF AND REBOOT !

To find the right time-point for this message, the Bret Hawnes virus uses the
interrupt at $6c, to calculate the twenty minutes ...




- DISASTER-MASTER V2

This 1740 bytes long filevirus camouflaged itself as clear screen command in
the subdirectory :c.
Every time if you start it, it`ll clear your screen and set the cursor on the
top of the new screen.
But that`s not all ...
It copies itself into AMIGA`s memory and sets the resident-pointer KickTagPtr
 & KickCheckSum  to an own resident-routine.
After every reboot it`ll set the vector DoIO () to its own address and waits
as long as the intuition.library is available.
From the intuition.library now, the virus will patch the vector of the routine
OpenWindow () to its own address and reset DoIO () to the ROM address.
If any task tries to use OpenWindow (), the DISASTER MASTER virus tries, to copy
itself on disk by the name `cls` in subdirectory `:c`.
Then it writes its name into the startup-sequence with one option:
            cls *
The option causes, that the virus, every time it`ll called from this startup-
sequence, doesn`t clear the screen, therefore it can`t betray itself ...
After one using of OpenWindow () DISASTER-MASTER sets this vector on its ROM
address, again !
This filevirus can close the AmigaDOS window and create a screen, like we
know it from the workbench or it let disappear the AmigaDOS title or so on ...
Be careful !
This virus has a counter and will destroy your disks, after you have ressetted
x times ...





- IRQ

This famous old linkvirus was the first one on the AMIGA !
It looks in the startup-sequence for an executable file and tries, to infect
it.
If it can`t find the startup-sequence, it looks for the command DIR in the
subdirectory :c and tries, to infect it.
IRQ extented a file to 1096 bytes.
The linkvirus writes its own hunk at the first position into that file.
Then it calculates all worths for a new hunk-header and the reloc-worths.
If you start an infected program, IRQ copies itself into memory and uses the
residents by setting KickTagPtr & KickCheckSum.
Further the virus sets the vector OldOpenLibrary () to its own address.
Everytime, when one program starts the routine OldOpenLibrary (), the IRQ virus
tries, to infect the next disk.
It`s harmless, but disturbing, because it prints the following text:
`AmigaDOS presents a new virus by the IRQ-Team V41.0`
This old linkvirus works only with KickStart V1.2 !
It makes no damges.





- Golden Rider

This one represents a new generation of linkviruses.
Because it does not copy itself as own hunk into an infected file, like old
linkviruses did it, but it looks for the first hunk of an executable program
and adds itself to it.
Golden Rider changes the last command of this hunk ( mostly $4E75 = `rts` )
to $4E71 ( `nop` ), which causes, that the processor thinks, if he runs this
code, that the first hunk of the program doesn`t end at this position.
Behind this position Golden Rider can write his virus-code.
Now, Golden Rider have, to add its own length to the two length worths in
the hunk-header, and the link is complete !
Every time you start one so infected program, the linkvirus can install itself
in memory.
But in not every case must that work !
If Golden Rider hangs on a routine in the first hunk, which only will be
called from the main-program, if an error was caused, then Golden Rider will
probably never activated ...
Golden Rider stands every time at $7C000 in memory and sets the vectors
CoolCapture , DoIO () & Open () to its own address.
After you reboots, Golden Rider will waked up by jumping in CoolCapture !
Now it sets DoIO () to its own address and waits so long, if it can open
the dos.library and set Open () to its own address.
If you insert a new disk, Golden Rider tries, to copy itself from memory into
one file of this disk.
If any program uses Open (), Golden Rider tries, to infect new files, too.
Golden Rider causes no damages and displays no alerts or so ...





- SADDAM

This one is called a Disk-Validator virus, because it uses the routine of
a Disk-Validator for its own increase.
SADDAM copies itself onto every disk, you insert or boot from and overwrites
the original Disk-Validator in subdirectory :L !
If those disk doesn`t contain this subdirectory, SADDAM creates by itself this
subdirectory !
It can infect every disk !
After that it sets the BitMap-pointer in the Root-Block to a senseless address,
which will cause a Disk Validating Error !
This will force in later times AmigaDOS, to startup the new Disk-Validator,
which is in realety the SADDAM virus !
Only, to insert an infected disk reaches, to get this virus in memory.
It is resident via ColdCapture.
That means, that it`ll work with KickStart 1.3 too, if you make a reset
without installing SetPatch r !
Because KickStart 1.3 has a bug in its system, will all other viruses wiped
out from memory after a reset - not so the SADDAM virus !!!
The virus sets the vectors BeginIO () & Close () from the trackdisk.device and
comes so every time in action, if you insert a disk in your drive or if you
boot from a disk or if you use in any other cases the trackdisk.device !
Further the virus sets the vector of the Raster-Beam-interrupt on its own
address !
Now, it can control permanent the right address of ColdCapture and sets the
vector again, if any other program had cleared it !
Only in the resetphase it patches the vectors InitCode () & OpenWindow ()
for virus internal works ...
The SADDAM virus is very malignant and causes different damages !!!
After a time it startes, to look for some OFS or FFS data blocks, gives them
the name IRAK and coded the contents with a worth !
The programs, standing in those data blocks, won`t longer work and the disk
gets read/write errors !
But, if the SADDAM virus stands in memory, it`ll decode such a datablock,
if AmigaDOS loads him and so can prevent a read/write error message !
Another damage has likeness with the virus Return of the Lamer Exterminator !
After a few time the virus startes, to format disks in all connected drives !
This disks are completely destroyed !!!
And shows you an alert:
            SADDAM Virus

AntiCicloVir can kill the SADDAM virus on disk, but not repair the damages !
At first you have, to correct the Disk Validating Error !
Please boot from one disk, which contains the original Disk-Validator and insert after
that the disk with the Disk-Validating Error !
The original Disk-Validator creates a provisional BitMap in memory, so that
AmigaDOS can work with those disk.
To get a valid BitMap, you have to write/delete anything to/from this disk !
Another possibility is, to use a diskmonitor, to look for the original
BitMap of that disk and, to set the BitMap-Pointer from the Rootblock
to the position of the original BitMap-Block !
If you want to health a disk with SADDAM damage, please use an universal virus-
killer, which can check the blocks of a disk, too !
You must uncode the coded data blocks, to get rid of the read/write errors !
But you can`t health disks, which the virus has formated !
I got this new virus from Gregory Sapsford, Fohlenkamp 33, W-4600 Dortmund 13,
Germany.


















            Mail

If you have got new viruses, bootblocks, packers or resident programs, please
send this stuff to my address !
I`m interested in every bug report of AntiCicloVir !!!
If you have some questions or suggestions about the assembly language source-
code of AntiCicloVir, please write to my address ...
... or also, if you`re being an assembly language programmer and want to swap
source-codes with me ...
Please excuse my bad anglian grammar, but my german also isn`t better !

Matthias Gutt
(Member of SHI)
Kantstr. 16
21335 Lueneburg

Germany