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Notes:
TBSCAN does not mean TurBo-SCAN as some users assume, but stands for
Thunderbyte Scan. TBSCAN is supplied with the Thunderbyte disk.
TBSCAN needs a signature file TBSCAN.DAT or VIRUSSIG.DAT. Because these
files are updated a lot, they are not supplied with this package. Both
of these files are availabel at Thunderbyte support BBS +31-85-212395 or
at many other BBSs.
Some users think that scanning for all viruses in all files is the best
scanning method (by using "TBSCAN *.* -a +n"). This is not true: It only
increases the possibility of false alarms. It is not usefull to scan for
bootsector viruses in .COM files or to scan for COM viruses in .EXE
files. Use this option only when you already encountered a virus and
want to make sure that you really destroyed all infected files.
If you use another virusscanner after running TBSCAN, it is possible
that that other scanner finds signatures of viruses in memory. This does
not mean that you have a virus, but is caused by the fact that the other
virusscanner detects the signatures left in memory by TBSCAN. The same
applies to TBSCAN, it will also find signatures left in memory by other
virusscanners. Future versions of TBSCAN will destroy their data before
they quit. Hopefully other scanners will be adapted also!
Due to safety routines in the TbScan program, it can not be compressed
with programs like PkLite, LzExe, or Diet. This is not very painfull
after all because the file isn't that big!