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- VirusX 4.01
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- Freely Redistrutable
- Copyright (c) 1990 Steve Tibbett
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- If you are new to VirusX, please hunt down VirusX 4.0, the last full
- release of VirusX. It includes a program called KV to seek out and
- remove link viruses from your hard disk, and the full documentation
- and source to VirusX. You should be able to find it wherever you
- found this version - if not, ask for it.
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- VirusX 4.01 is a small update from VirusX 4.00 - I've made a lot of
- changes to the program, but there is only one visible change - and
- it's actually an invisible change.
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- VirusX no longer has to open a window. The new "-N" option will cause
- VirusX to run in the background and do all that it usually does,
- without opening a window.
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- "But how do I look at disk boot blocks, then?" you ask? Even if you
- didn't ask, here's how to do it - you just run VirusX again. VirusX
- will notice that it's already running, and ask if you want the other
- copy to quit, open its window, or if you want to just cancel the whole
- operation (leave the other copy running, and quit this new copy).
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- You cannot have two copies of VirusX running - but why would you want
- to anyway?
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- I fixed a few bugs from V4.00, mainly the read-from-location-zero bug
- that caused VirusX to crash on machines with 2091 hard disk
- controllers, among other things.
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- This version of VirusX is fully compatible with AmigaDOS 2.0, and will
- take advantage of its improved Intuition in simple places (ie, moving
- the VirusX window around), where approporiate. This does not affect
- how VirusX behaves under 1.3 and earlier versions.
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- This version of VirusX is being released WITHOUT the source code.
- This is because the current source has requires the AmigaDOS 2.0
- includes to compile, and these are not currently available to the
- general public. I am also not including the documentation or KV in
- the release archive, simply because none of these things have changed.
- The next full release of VirusX will have all these items, and if you
- are the picky sort, you can ignore this version until the next full
- release.
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- V4.01 checks for no new viruses. I do have a number of new viruses to
- add, but haven't had time to do it, and a bug fix release is long
- overdue.
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- Staying current with VirusX isn't as easy as it sounds. There are
- currently two known "Bogus" versions of VirusX - Virusx 4.4, and
- VirusX 5.0. Neither of these are my product. The only way to be sure
- of the latest version is either to call my BBS, Plink, Bix, or Me (in
- that order!). If you are going to distribute VirusX to others, ie, on
- a disk-of-the-month or on a disk magazine, please make sure you have
- the current version.
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- If you wish to get ahold of me for any reason, the best way is via
- modem. I'm an assitant chairman of the AmigaZone on People/Link, known
- there as STEVEX. I'm also on Bix, known as "s.tibbett". If you
- aren't on one of those services, then you can call my BBS at 613-731-
- 3419. If you really need to speak to me, call me in the evening at
- 613-731-5316. Writing to me is not a good idea, as I don't normally
- respond to mail (though I do read everything I get).
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- I'm also changing the status of VirusX slightly. VirusX is no longer
- "Public Domain", but is instead now classed as "Freely Redistrutable,
- Copyright 1990 Steve Tibbett". You are free to distribute VirusX as a
- part of any collection that is being sold for the cost of duplication
- and distribution, providing that you verify with me the status of the
- version you plan to distribute. (If you just downloaded it from Plink
- or from my BBS, then don't bother). Online distribution in any form
- is okay. Any other distribution (specifically disk magazines) should
- contact me. (I don't like legal stuff, but I like the idea of a
- version of VirusX that can do damage to people's systems being
- distributed even less, hence this paragraph).
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- IMPORTANT NOTE:
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- If you have had VirusX complain about the CoolCapture vector when you
- run it, and you are using either AmigaDOS 2.0 or SetPatch r (the r
- option on SetPatch - check your startup sequence), then that is the
- cause of it. If you run VirusX with the "-r" option, then it will not
- complain about this. (It will actually not complain about ANY unknown
- coolcapture vectors above $80000, but this does not affect its
- detection of all known viruses, even if they are up there).
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- On SOME systems in some configurations, I'm really not sure what,
- VirusX will complain about the SetPatch capture even with the -r set.
- If this happens, use the "-c" option which will turn off the capture
- checking altogether.
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