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- Virus Script Suite: History
-
- 2.04 3/21/95:
- -Changed the VSUITE.DOC file to note a problem discovered when
- using Novell-style names with 4DOS piping.
-
- -Redid the order of the HISTORY file to put the most recent changes
- first in the list (wow).
-
- -Changed some installer text to reflect the Novell naming problems
- I had found.
-
- -Corrected some of the code in the reporting section which could
- cause some machines to not report anything other than date and
- time when a virus problem was found.
-
- 2.03 2/21/95:
- -Added a direct path to the .bat file which calls the scanner,
- speeding up network access.
-
- -Made the check for Windows in the scripts look only for Windows
- running in 386 Enhanced mode (which is the only mode with 32 bit
- disk access).
-
- -Added a check for the temporary directory on the local drive when
- the scanner is called, and create it if it does not exist.
-
- -Reduced the free diskspace needed on local machines for the F-Prot
- files closer to the actual size of the F-Prot file sizes.
-
- 2.02 1/17/95:
- -Fixed a problem in the reporting section of the script which
- caused the user's name to not appear on reports some times.
-
- -Removed unnecessary code, to the tune of about a dozen lines, to
- help the speed of the scanner.
-
- 2.01 12/06/94:
- -Corrected a bug that stored the virus reports on the wrong path,
- making them invisible to the scripts.
-
- -Fixed some screen alignments, changed a few colors for better
- contrast on dark screens.
-
- 2.0 12/05/94:
- -Complete rewrite from scratch. Now, the system no longer requires
- the UNIX-like utils GREP and SED and such. Also, you don't have to
- have a mail system running to use this utility, nor do you need as
- much memory (scripts were optimized).
-
- -Memory scanned upon entering the script, not upon the first disk
- scan.
-
- -Reporting is handled via an extended VCHECK script now, and
- reports are not mailed to you, but instead displayed and then
- archived upon your logging into the server.
-
- -Checks added for numerous things, such as environment space and
- whether or not a user is running the script from under Windows
- (which for system handling reasons I feel it's best to run virus
- scanning software from plain old DOS).
-
- -The installer was completely rewritten as well. More useful
- information is put onscreen during installation, and the
- implementation was thought out instead of being hacked together.
-
- -Alert Messages changed, and now instead of just giving the user a
- brief description, a thorough description of any problems
- encountered during scanning are presented.
-
- -New interface, which is (so I hear) easier to use.
-
- -HELP file included within the scanner now, to give people who
- don't have a clue how to scan or why to scan, a clue.
-
- -Screentext and documentation were checked for speling errers.
-
- 1.5 8/1/94:
- -Edited the release after discovery of a new version of F-Prot
- which had hit the SimTel archives the same morning. Now, the
- scanner can detect a seventh type of problem: questionable files.
- This will not really affect anyone using the scripts unedited
- since the heuristic scan option is not used, but I put in a check
- for it just in case. If you do use the heuristic option in the
- scanner (check the F-Prot documentation for more on how to add
- this option), and a questionable file is found, the station will
- NOT lock down (as it would have otherwise), but the user is
- notified that a questionable file was found, and the virus report
- and summary files are updated and forwarded to you, as if there
- had been an identifiable string.
-
- -Fixed a mailer bug; virus reports were being labelled incorrectly.
-
- -Cleaned up a minor screen bug.
-
-
- 1.4 8/1/94:
- -First public release, included an installer. Likely the shortest
- lived release in the history of computers. Added report code in a
- new reliease of F-Prot required an update five minutes after I had
- posted the archive.
-
- 1.3 7/94:
- -Pre-release beta; Reprogrammed and redesigned for
- universal implementation.
-
- 1.0-1.2 7/94:
- -Local scripts. Designed and implemented as a single server
- solution.
-
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