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VirusX 3.1 Release Note:

The reason for V3.1 of VirusX is because I got 2 new viruses since
the V3.0 release.

The reason for V3.0 of VirusX is to deal with the first non-bootblock
Virus, the IRQ Virus.

VirusX will find this disk on any disk inserted, and remove it, just
like it does with the bootblock viruses.  The difference is that
the IRQ Virus can find it's way onto your hard drive.

Rather than increasing the size of VirusX by a fair amount to have it
handle Hard Disks, there is a separate utility called KV that will
allow you to check your hard disk for this virus.

What you should do is check the C: directory of your hard disk,
and once you've done that, take a look at your startup-sequence.
Use KV to check the first file found in your startup sequence -
if the first line of your SS is "System/SetMap USA0" or something
like that, then KV System/SetMap to make sure the SetMap command
isn't infected.

If worse comes to worst, run VirusX first, then run KV on every
directory on your hard drive where executable programs live.  Once
you've gotten rid of it once, if you make sure you check any new
programs carefully (with KV, or by having VirusX running when you
test these programs), you're safe.

Note that all this applies ONLY to the IRQ Virus V41.  If you see
any other incarnation of this same virus, Please send me a copy!

ALSO NOTE:  This release of VirusX is 11760 Bytes.  If it is any
bigger than this, it could be because VirusX itself is infected with
this new IRQ virus - run the KV program on VirusX ('KV VIRUSX') just
to make sure.

            ...Steve