PC Door Guard v 2.8.0.0 : README
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Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Distribution status
  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support
  Ombudsman statement


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Distribution Status
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If you are using PC Door Guard on an evaluation basis you may make copies
of the evaluation PC Door Guard as you wish; give exact copies of the original 
evaluation PC Door Guard to anyone; and distribute the evaluation PC Door Guard
in its unmodified form via electronic means (Internet, BBS's, Shareware distribution
libraries, CD-ROMs, etc.). You may not charge any fee for the copy or use of 
the evaluation PC Door Guard itself, but you may charge a distribution fee that is 
reasonably related to any cost you incur distributing the evaluation PC Door Guard 
(e.g. packaging). You must not represent in any way that you are selling the 
PC Door Guard itself. Your distribution of the evaluation PC Door Guard will not 
entitle you to any compensation from Astonsoft.  You must distribute a copy of this 
EULA with any copy of the PC Door Guard and anyone to whom you distribute the PC 
Door Guard is subject to this EULA.


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Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  pdg.exe
Program Name:
  PC Door Guard
Program Version:
  2.8
Program Release Date:
   08.02.2001
Program Description:
  Powerful anti-trojan tool, with data for over 2,500 trojan horses, featuring advanced trojan delete utility.
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
Software type:
  Shareware ($29.95)


Company information
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Company Name:
  Astonsoft Ltd
Contact E-mail Address:
  maxim@astonsoft.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.astonsoft.com/
Contact Postal Address:
  Mahtra 42-21
  Tallinn 13812
  Estonia

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Description
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A very extensive and thorough intrusion scanner that scans any
media on your PC for backdoors and trojan horses. This is not an anti-virus,
rather, its main purpose is to fight trojan horses, which can not reliably be
detected by anti-viruses. Designed to work alongside any anti-virus to complement
each other.
Also allows you to perform tasks relating to your PC's 
wellbeing such as regedit, system reports, and it allows 
you to see any application (hidden or otherwise) that is operating.
While online updates keep PC Door Guard up to date, the built-in 
heuristic analyzer in most cases can detect a Trojan without using any virus database. 
The Monitor utility constantly verifies the files you download, 
get via ICQ, or receive by e-mail; the Executor checks any file 
before it is executed; and the Scanner provides you with a trojan and virus 
search engine so that stealth, phantom, and worm viruses and trojansdo not get away. 
The Cure module enables you to delete any discovered viruses, even 
if they are hiding behind Windows processes. 
PC Door Guard does not intercept system resources, thus allowing you 
to use it with any other anti-virus application for maximum protection. 
Its comprehensive database includes data for over 2,100 Trojan horses.


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Installation
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Important! If you've got PDG not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about twice a month.

To install PDG, just run the "pdg10.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
and the components to install.

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Registration
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See "order.txt" file.

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Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.

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Technical support
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Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
  mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
  your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
  do I:", though the complete information is there.
- Visit PDG home page in the Internet at
  http://www.astonsoft.com/. It's a good chance that you'll
  find the newer version of PDG there. If the serious bug has
  been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet,
  we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with PDG and nothing else helps,
please contact technical support at:

  support@astonsoft.com

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.