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:::::::::::::::::::::::: BOOTX HISTORY ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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::: Version 4.02 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- New recognised linkvirus:
The Traveling Jack 3 linkvirus
- New recognised bootvirus:
Dotty bootvirus
::: Version 4.01 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Built in LVD v1.60. DO NOT USE the LVD build into BootX 4.00
because it has a gigantic bug in it causing most files to be
reported as infected. Mega apologies for that !
::: Version 4.00 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BootX v4.00 is a complete rewrite based on BootX v3.84. The
user interface has been completely redesigned to follow the
rules laid out in the Amiga User Interface Style Guide. I will
continue to do this in future releases of BootX.
- The screen depth was brought from 3 to 2 bitplanes resulting in
a noticable increase in text output speed.
BootX will use the colors of the Workbench when possible. Users
of the ReqTools library have the option to change them using
the pallete requester and save them with their configuration.
- Added the Linkvirus Check Settings requester.
- Made the paging routine a lot smarter.
- Added the Report feature.
- Added support for KickStart 2.0 SetPatch.
- Improved the linkvirus check routine. It works a lot faster now
and is more flexible than before.
- BootX does not need the arp.library anymore ! Instead the
reqtools.library is required now when running KS 1.3 !
- New file types recognised:
BootX Bootblock library
BootX Brain files
Imploder 4.0 (Normal & Library) crunched files
SAS/C Library files
- New recognised file virus:
Amiga Knights
Thanks go to Andreas Genthner (Germany) for sending it to me.
- New recognised bootblocks:
1 MByte Bootblock Copy
Kein Virus bootblock
Magnetic Fields Interferon Pro
N.O.M.A.D. Utility Boot 1.0
OmniBoot v2.3
Paradox Install
Pleasure Boot 1.3+
Power Boot 1.2
Pro Boot 1.0
Viruscope BootBlanker 1.0
X-Copy No Virus Message
Thanks go to Andreas Genthner (Germany) for sending them to me.
::: Version 3.84 ::: Released on September 21, 1991 :::::::::::::
- New recognised bootblock virus:
Unicorn 1.1
Thanks go to Jorrit Visschers (The Netherlands) for sending it
to me.
::: Version 3.83 ::: Released on September 18, 1991 :::::::::::::
- New recognised bootblock viruses:
Tai-Pan Chaos
Tai-Pan LameBlame
- New recognised bootblocks:
Pseudo-Ops Viruskiller Install
RF's Bootintro 1.0
Skid Row boot
SlipStream Utility Boot v6.1
System Report bootblock
The Amiga Tool
TNM Disk Coder
TNM Disk Decoder
Thanks go to Vidar Bang (Norway), Petter Jalvinger (Sweden), Ed
Romijnders (The Netherlands) and Federico Di Vincenzo (Italy) for
sending them to me.
- BootX now uses a different way to determine the parameters of its
screen. The old way would cause some KickStart 2.0 users problems
when they had an oversized Workbench.
- New recognised file types:
Arc files
PPLoadSeg files (PowerPacker 4.0)
Vista DEM files
- BootX has been tested on a A2000 expanded with a 68040 accelerator
board and it worked just fine ! I tweeked the code in some places
to keep the caches of the 68040 happy.
- Built in LVD 1.50.
::: Version 3.82 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- New recognised file virus:
Centurions 2 (The Smily Cancer 2)
- New recognised bootblock viruses:
Blizzard Protector v3.1
Fast Eddie
French Kiss
MAD I (Byte Bandit clone)
SCA clone: Deniz Unal (ZLX)
TriSector 911
- New recognised bootblocks:
Magic Anti-Virus
Slipstream Utility Boot v5.0
VirusScope Boot-PAL v1.0
VirusScope BootBlanker v1.0
VirusScope KillFast v1.0
VirusScope OnePlane v1.0
VirusScope OnlyChip v1.0
VirusScope QuietDrive v1.0
Ziggy ECS 60Hz
::: Version 3.81b :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- New recognised bootblock virus:
Zombi 1
Thanks go to Andreas Genthner (Germany) for sending it to me.
::: Version 3.81 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- New recognised bootblocks:
BootBoy
BootLeg 2.1
Scoopex Utility Boot 1.0
Vision bootblock
Zest Fast Menu
Thanks go to Frederico Di Vincenzo (Italy) for sending me these.
- Changed the name of the X-Copy II bootblock to X-Copy boot.
- Made the check for a normal bootblock more intellegent.
Sometimes the old Install command would not clear the remaining
unused part of a bootblock resulting in a lot of garbage being
written in the bootblock.
::: Version 3.80e :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Finally got the names straight of the disk-validator viruses.
- Optimized the color changes in the text.
- New file type recognised:
SAS/C Library files
BootX Bootblock library
BootX Brain files
::: Version 3.80d :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- A bug in the requester routine caused BootX to crash when run
with KickStart 1.3 and when there was only one gadget in the
requester. Sorry about that...
- Fixed a bug which caused BootX to have problems commenting
infected files with KickStart 1.3.
::: Version 3.80c :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- New recognised bootblocks:
Copylock Amiga
KDVIII Install
NoFastMem boot by J. Potter
Thanks go to Ed Romijnders (The Netherlands) for sending me
these.
Dave Dos bootblock
BOMBed bootblock
Thanks go to Petter Jalvinger (Sweden) for sending me these.
- New file types recognised:
MovieSetter Movie files.
IFF LISTs
Drawer Info files
Font descriptions
AmigaBASIC files
- MAJOR BUG FIX: Apparantly when the Go to Sleep feature was
used in version 3.80 and 3.80b you were award with a free trip
to India to visit the Guru. You can sleep safe now. (No pun
intended.)
- Added embedded version string. KickStart 2.0 users can now
check the version of BootX by typing "version BootX". You will
get a message in the following format:
BootX version.revision
- When you press the left mousebutton to stop a linkvirus check a
requester will pop-up asking you to confirm you really want to
stop. Some people complained they clicked the button by
accident when the nearly had completed checking their 105 Mb
hard-disk.
- Fixed a little bug in the file recognition routine which caused
small files to be recognized wrong.
::: Version 3.80b :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Very little, tiny, microscopic bug fix to put the ReqTools
requesters in their default position.
- BootX now recognizes PowerPacker 4.0 crunched executables and
Imploder 1.0 crunched executables.
::: Version 3.80 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Added Memory and diskchecks for:
BLF bootvirus
Byte Bandit clone: ZAccess 2.0 bootvirus
CLIManager anti-virus
Future Disaster bootvirus
Glasnost bootblock
Gyros bootvirus
Hoden v33.17 bootvirus
Paramount Softworks bootvirus
Santa Claus bootvirus
SCA clone: AIDS (HIV) bootvirus
SCA clone: BladeRunners bootvirus
Suntronic bootvirus
ULDV8 bootvirus
Virus 4.2 bootblock (just looks like a virus)
Warsaw Avenger bootvirus
ZAccess 1.0 bootvirus
Gotcha Lamer file virus
Gotcha Lamer file virus install program
TimeBomb file virus
VirusTest file virus
Icon.library (BlueBox) filevirus install program
Clonk! anti-virus
- Built in protection against PowerPacker 3.2 trojan horse and
Saddam disk-validator virus.
- Rewrote the console routines to make them faster.
- Rewrote the directory tree walk routine to make it faster.
- Made the Linkvirus check routine as flexible as the one in
LVX. The user can now influence the checking process.
- The colors of the mousepointer now get changed only when
necessary.
- BootX now recognizes the following new file types:
Zip archives
Zoo archives
LhArc archives
PowerPacker data files
PowerPacker 3.0 executables
PowerPacker 2.x executables
Resource .rs files
Plan/IT files
GIF87a and 89a pictures files
TIFF picture files
ANC Cruncher
Relokit 1.1
HQC Cruncher 2.0
Master Cruncher 3.0
Drag Pack 1.0b
TurboSqueeze 5.1
TNM Cruncher 1.1
Titanics Cruncher
Many thanks to Nico Fran
ois for the identifying codes of the
PowerPacked and other chrunched executables !
- This version of BootX contains separate code for 1.2/1.3 and
2.0 users. This means that under KickStart 2.0 BootX does NOT
need the arp.library anymore. (Are you happy now, Nico ?)
- BootX is from now on prepared for Nico Fran
ois's ReqTools
library. When you have ReqTools installed BootX will use it.
Else BootX will try to use the Asl library for KickStart 2.0
users.
- BootX now indents directories and files when walking down the
directory tree during a linkvirus check.
- You can now press the right mousebutton to halt BootX during
a linkviruscheck so that you can take a better look at the
files before the name flashes by.
- Built in LVD 1.43.
::: Version 3.73 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Removed the flicker in the box draw routine when using BootX on
68030 equiped machines (read Amiga 3000). Are you happy now,
Nico ?
- PPLoadSeg by Nico Fran
ois is now recognised.
- Rewrote the Check Files routine to make it faster.
- Added memory and diskchecks for:
Extreme bootvirus
H.C.S. 4220 v4.0 anti virus
EuroMail file virus
Turk bootvirus installer
::: Version 3.72 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Removed the Edit gadget.
- Added the Repair Disk gadget.
- Added memory and diskchecks for:
DAT '89 bootvirus
L.A.D.S. (Gremlin) bootvirus
Byte Bandit 3 bootvirus
Lamer Exterminator 9 bootvirus
MAD III (Byte Warrior clone) bootvirus
MAD IV (Lamer Exterminator clone) bootvirus
Divina Exterminator 1 bootvirus
Disk-Validator (Lamer Exterminator) filevirus
Icon.library (Blue Box) filevirus
- Bug fix: the Disk-Validator (Saddam) filevirus was only
recognized in memory after a reset.
- Bug fix: TDClose vector was checked at the wrong address.
::: Version 3.71 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Bug fix: a tiny little bug slipped into the new Learn
BootBlock routine. Version 3.70 would let you add new brain
entries but they would not be used while recognizing a
bootblock.
::: Version 3.70 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Gave BootX a semi-2.0 look. When running under KickStart 2.0
the screen and the windows get the 3D look.
- Build in a check for NewLoadSeg and InternalLoadSeg. These are
two new potential virus entry points in the dos.library under
KickStart 2.0.
- You can now use any mousebutton to skip through the info from
MemoryCheck. Note though that a click on the left mousebutton
is not detected when the mouse is over a gadget.
- Added checks for:
Riska virus (and Frity clone)
- Completely rewrote the MemoryCheck routine. BootX now attempts
to repair as much damage as possible, extracting the original
values from the virus code. The best policy remains to turn the
Amiga off when a virus is found.
- Fixed a bug in Learn Bootblock. This feature refused to work
under KickStart 2.0.
::: Version 3.66 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Added check for Butonic 1.31 and Bret Hawnes linkviruses
- Added check for new bootviruses
Blow Job virus
Byte Voyager 1 virus
Byte Voyager 2 virus
Paratax II virus
Fast 2 virus
Mad II virus
Hilly virus
Obelisk Crew virus
Paradox 1 virus
Paradox 2 virus
Saddam Hussein virus
SuperBoy virus
Tomates-Gentechnic virus
The Traveller 1.0 virus
Vermin virus
- To comply with the classification of the Virus Bank I changed
the following bootblocks to be reported as a virus:
ASS VirusProtector
ByteWarrior Fastloader
HCS4220 Viruskiller
SupplyTeam Viruskiller
Virus Slayer 1.0
::: Version 3.65 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Tweeked BootX a little further
- Fix a little bug in my Anti-Virus bootlblock: Anti-Virus bootblock
v5.0 is now KickStart 2.0 compatible
::: Version 3.64 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Added a file check for Saddam linkvirus. This little virus
lives in the L: directory and has the name and the file size
of a KickStart 1.3 disk-validator file.
::: Version 3.63 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Numerous little bug fixes to make BootX more stable.
::: Version 3.62 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Added the normal DOS Install bootblock to the bootblock library.
- Removed some old anti-virus bootblocks from the library.
::: Version 3.61 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Succesfully adapted BootX to run with KickStart 2.x. KickStart
1.3 and 1.2 are still supported.
- Fixed a bug in the startup routine that only showed up when the
arp.library wasn't found.
- CheckFile now shows more information about the file it is
checking.
- BootX now gets its screen height and screen mode from the
Workbench screen in case it is open. In other cases the
default 200 is used.
- Fixed the bug that caused an uninitialised bootblock to
recognized as the Graffiti virus (Sorry about that).
- Replaced the MemoryCheck routine by the one found in EVW (EVW
is an Early Virus Warning program by the same author).
- The 'Show known bootblocks' menu option can now be used to show
which bootblocks and bootviruses BootX knows.
- Answering 'No' to the 'Remove current brainfile' requester now
works.
- BootX now offers to add a file comment to any linkvirus it
finds.
- IMPORTANT: some users complained that BootX didn't 'clear' any
suspicious vectors. Well, it does but only the first 5 of the
list. Should any other than the first 5 vectors be marked with
'Please check' and you don't know what is using those vectors,
turn off your Amiga, wait a few seconds and reboot. I noticed
that some harddisks or expansion boards changed the vectors of
the ExecBase.
::: Version 3.60 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Expanded the memory checker
- Fixed a bug in the error exit routine (in case the arp.library
wasn't found)
- Rewrote the CheckFiles routine again to use a FIFO software
stack instead of being recursive. CheckFiles can be
interrupted again by pressing any mousebutton.
- Fixed a bug in the name printing routine of the linkviruses. I
accidentally switch the arguments for _LVOPrintf.
- Added a lot of new recog ID's for bootblockviruses.
- BootX v3.60 now recognizes 10 linkviruses:
IRQ Butonic
BSG-9 (TTV1) CCCP
Revenge of the Lamer Exterminator Jack
Xeno Centurions
Disaster Master TTV1 2
- Special thanks go to Erik L
vendahl S
rensen for giving me
access to his virus databank. For more information and Erik's
address, refer to the bottom of this doc file.
::: Version 3.40 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Added a check for the Peter Stuer Anti-Virus 3.0 bootblock
- Cleanup up a lot of the code
- Squashed some potential bugs
- Completely rewrote the LinkVirusCheck routine to use a client
call-back function.
- Completely rewrote the MemoryCheck routine and added a few more
vectors to check.
- Added checks for 2 more bootblocks and 7 more bootblockviruses
- Added checks for several new linkviruses.
- Rewrote the BootBlock library routines
- BootX now detects if another copy is running. This was asked
by some users who always forgot they still had a dormant copy
of BootX hanging around on the Workbench.
- For users of the SetPatch -r option BootX now asks if it is
allright to reset any memory vectors.
- More vectors are shown that are potential targets for viruses.
- Fix a bug in the View Brainfile option.
- Fix a bug in the Save Brainfile option.
- Added the Merge Brainfile option:
Since version 3.30 BootX has been able to create brainfiles.
This option allows you to 'merge' a brainfile you got from a
friend. BootX takes care of all the details. It won't add any
signatures that already exist. You select the brainfile you
wish to merge in the ARP file requester. Merging occurs in
memory, so don't forget to save the updated brainfile (BootX
will warn you though.
- Fixed a bug in the startup code. BootX now uses the same
current directory as the CLI it was started from.
- Added the Quit menuitem
::: Version 3.30 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Fixed a bug in the font name. BootX should now always use the
Topaz 80 font (Hopefully).
- Fixed a bug in the startup code.
- Optimized the code completely
- BootX now checks for viruses on startup
- Completely rewrote the MemoryCheck routine
- All information is now printed using a console (Now I can use
formated output for several functions. For the Amiga
programmers: I understand the RawDoFmt() function now (at
last)).
- Completely rewrote the link virus check routine. It can be
stopped by pressing the left mousebutton.
- BootX tries to reconise a bootblock that is loaded.
- Added checks for PVL Virus Protector 6.5 and Anti-Virus 2.0 and
added both to the built-in bootblocks.
- Removed some of the spelling errors from this doc file
::: Version 3.20 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Fixed a bug in the new recognition routine.
::: Version 3.10 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Some internal code optimizations.
- Added Anti-Virus 1.0 from Peter Stuer.
- Finally removed the NorthStar 2 bootblock from the installable
bootblocks.
::: Version 2.90 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Reformated this doc file so it can be read from the CLI using
type.
- The detection on/off switch now flashes when it is selected.
- Added a new bootblock to the recog list.
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1991 BootX v4.01 written by Peter Stuer
thanks to Nico Fran
ois, Bart Leeten and
Didier De Cock for beta-testing and
all the useful suggestions.
_
_ //
Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !