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- chkv \
- rstv - protection against viruses
- clrv /
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- Copyright ©1990 by Arthur Hagen
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-
- Most viruses live in memory by attaching themselves to one of the
- capture-vectors which will be called at boot-time, or by making a resident
- structure which also will be run at boot-time. Most virus killers handle
- these viruses nicely, and some of them even manages to find new viruses by
- actively checking these few crucial places in memory. Alas, everything
- hanging around at these addresses need not be viruses. E.g. if you have
- more than one meg of chip-ram, and run 'setpatch r' for use with RAD:, two
- of the vectors will be set just to recover this. If you use ZKick to boot
- with O/S 2.0, four of the vectors will be set. Other utilities like some
- resident virus killers may also use these vectors. So, if you include a
- virus-killer like 'VirusX' in your startup-sequence, you may actually kill
- more than you wanted! Here chkv, clrv and rstv come in handy. chkv is a
- small routine that will list the boot-vectors to screen or any specified
- file. When running chkv, note if you get any values shown other than
- zeroes. This could mean (a) that you have some resident utility that
- survives reboot or (b) that you have a virus in memory. If you are quite
- certain that you don't have any viruses running, use "chkv >S:Vectors" to
- save a copy of what these vectors should be on your specific system. Now
- you can use rstv to actually restore these vectors to YOUR defaults after
- some virus killer or virus have altered the contents! Just enter "rstv",
- and the vectors will be restored, allowing you to reboot as usual. If you
- accidentally have rebooted and found out that your RAD: has disappeared
- (most probably because of an inferior virus killer or a virus), you might
- very well recover your RAD: by running rstv and then reboot. Note that
- you MUST have a file named S:Vectors that contain a list of the vectors and
- their value. If you don't want to restore some of the vectors, just use
- any text editor to delete the line with the vector you want to leave alone.
- Sometimes you may want to kill off all boot-resident programs, and start
- all over with a clean machine. clrv will do this, if you just enter "clrv"
- from the CLI. If you change your mind, just use rstv to restore the
- vectors as they should have been.
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-
- chkv comes in two flavours, one short and speedy, and one that should
- function well even with 68020+'s with cache-ram.
-
- For automatic check at bootup, put chkv2 into the c: directory, and the
- following first in your s:startup-sequence:
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- chkv2 >NIL:
- If WARN
- Echo "POSSIBLE VIRUS IN MEMORY!"
- rstv
- Break 1 d
- Else
- Echo "Memory O.K."
- EndIf
-
- That's it!
- Oh, yeah, the programs are Public Domain, so you can spread them, modify
- them, eat them or do whatever you like.
-
- If you like these programs, try out VScan by the same author.
-
- *Art
-