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- The version history of Scanner by Tor O. Houghton © 1991, 1992:
-
- 1.00 (12-Dec-1991) - Will find files, albeit not very nicely put
- on the screen.
- 1.02 (12-Dec-1991) - Nicer layout! Scans for NETSTATUS and
- ARCHIEVIRUS viruses. Provides removal of the
- NETSTATUS virus from !Boot files.
- 1.03 (10-Jan-1992) - Added check and kill for TRAPHANDLER virus.
- LINK check added (at 5am!!!). Working on
- disinfection.
- 1.04 (11-Jan-1992) - Finds infection count in LINK virus. (Module
- offset: 2F0)
- 1.05 (12-Jan-1992) - Small bug fixes.
- 1.06 (14-Jan-1992) - Completed disinfectant code for LINK virus.
- 1.10 (22-Jan-1992) - Fixed bugs and added error 'routine'.
- 1.12 (25-Jan-1992) - Added IMAGE virus scan & kill.
- 1.13 (26-Jan-1992) - Added !Boot search for IMAGE infections. I
- want to know if this works!! (I haven't got
- the damn virus...)
- 1.14 (03-Feb-1992) - Got the MODULE virus in the post today, so
- added scan for this. Thanks to Eivind Hagen
- for that one.
- 1.15 (03-Feb-1992) - Added MYMOD scan and kill. Also added option
- for logfile. Please note that 1.14 has a wrong
- version date. It should be 02-Feb-1992!
- 1.16 (12-Feb-1992) - Bugs removed. Added CEBIT scan.
- 1.17 (19-Feb-1992) - Added kill for 2048 byte version of NetStatus.
- Thanks to Alan for notifying me on that one.
- 1.20 (04-Mar-1992) - Added in-memory detection of CEBIT (removal),
- EXTEND, LINK (removal), MYMOD (removal),
- NETSTATUS (removal), NETMANAGER (removal),
- PARASITE and TRAPHANDER (removal).
- 1.21 (13-Mar-1992) - Added disc scan for PARASITE and THANATOS.
- 1.22 (13-Mar-1992) - REMOVED in-memory removal of CEBIT as this one
- has to be patched before it can shut down.
- Call me lazy, but I'm afraid all you can do is
- reset the computer if Scanner detects it in RMA.
- Added scan for SPRITE and scan/kill of VALID.
- I apologize to those who had to download both
- versions.
- 1.23 (18-Mar-1992) - Scanner seemed to detect PARASITE viruses in
- modules which weren't infected. This is now
- fixed temporarily by checking the accompanying
- !Boot file in an infected application. I wish
- I could make it more reliable, but I don't have
- enough examples of the virus to do that. Added
- "NOT SURE" colour. See above.
- 1.24 (23-Mar-1992) - Did small changes to virus reports to make them
- comply to the Archimedes Reference Document.
- E.g. ARCHIEVIRUS is now ARCHIE, and VIGAYVIRUS
- is VIGAY. In other words, no major change, but
- I'd forgotten that we changed those names in
- our document!
- 1.25 (30-Mar-1992) - Bug fixes(!). Added option for removal of
- ARCHIE inoculation fingerprint.
- 1.30 (15-Apr-1992) - A big leap (.5) in version number due to the
- implementation of OS_GetEnv to make Scanner
- work from a command line. Thanks to Herbert
- zur Nedden for this routine (although I *was*
- thinking of using GetEnv too! Thanks for saving
- a lot of time doing experimenting! :-). This
- version was done at The Gathering 1992, coughed
- together by Deadline/Crusaders. At the moment
- I'm pretty awake, but wait......... :-)
- Also - I think there's a new version of MODULE
- around. Scanner didn't detect this new one
- anyway!!
- 1.31 (15-Apr-1992) - I'm in for a long night... Parameters missing.
- Removal code for EXTEND inoculations completed.
- I guess it didn't become such a long night
- after all!
- 1.32 (18-Apr-1992) - Added scan and kill of ICON. Also added scan
- of suspicious files - currently checks sprite
- and absolute files. Fixed 'Press space...' when
- Scanner finishes. Fixed serious bug whihc didn't
- allow Scanner to search on writeprotected discs!
- 1.33 (24-Apr-1992) - Added scan for BBCECONET virus. Also modified
- 'strange' scan, it was slightly weird... Now
- detects if first word has "<instr>NV" or
- <instr> reg,reg where reg=reg. I.e. MOV r0,r0.
- I don't know if this is of any use, and might
- prove to be annoying, but...
- Please refer to the Archimedes Virus Reference
- Document for full info about this (and the
- other) viruses. Current version is 1.26p.
-
- Please note that version 1.32+ scans suspicious
- for sprite files too! (Forgot to mention it.)
-
- 1.34 (28-Apr-1992) - First of all, I was told by Svlad Cjelli to
- credit him! :-) I got IMAGE from him through
- Alan. BTW, Svlad, you *are* credited in AViD...
- And yes - you'll have to send a disc. Second, I
- am working on the STRANGE criteria. Seems it
- bummed out quite badly in v1.33! Sorry about
- that - I hope it will be better in this version.
- I think it does! Finds if BBCECONET is in
- memory, kills it if so.
-
- 1.35 (23-May-1992) - Fixed ? PARASITE warning on short module names.
- Should be OK now. Other fixes in PARASITE scan
- routine. Did some editing of the Doc file.
-
- 1.36 (29-May-1992) - Bugs bugs bugs. Thanks Alan... :-P
- I really needed *that* after a nice day on the
- beach! Also added EXTEND media search. I guess I
- didn't think people were that anxious to find
- that one since it was so old. (I treated it as
- an extinct virus for the time being.) Added
- VCZMod (MYMOD dropper?) scan, but no kill as I
- don't know if this is a module on it's own or
- in an application. Also detects any version of
- VIGAY (due to a silly filelength check, the 2432
- byte version never showed up!). When I get hold
- of NETMANAGER, a media scan & removal will be
- added.
-
- Versions prior to 1.02 were never released to the public, as there were
- killers around for the viruses killed/detected by those versions.
-
- Known problems:
-
- Sometimes the pathname of an object will not be printed. I still
- don't know what's doing it.