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VID - Virus Information Door History Notes: o New * Change ! Fix
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■ What's New in Release 2.01? ■
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o Over 100 new viruses added, bringing the total up to 1,557 entries.
o Cleaned up display in several of the search and list options,
including multi-column virus listings (Thanks to Chris Koziol).
o Provided an option for online documentation for end-users.
* Due to an internal problem in the original 2.00 release, you must
use v2.01+ to use any new enhancement modules. The database
structures have changed a bit.
* The periodic VID integrity check has been enhanced. VID now
stores its integrity information in a file called SANITY.CHK.
Ensure that this file resides in the VID directory!
* In the 2.00 release, the VIDDEF.TBL file had to reside in the
path. This was causing a message subsystem initialization error
if VID could not locate this file in the path! VID now looks in
the current directory first. (Thanks to Steve Pepin)
! In the Behavior search, although the default answer is "Ignore",
the prompt showed the default as "No". Fixed! (Steve Pepin).
! If VID was typed alone with no arguments, the old switches from
the 1.10 release were displayed! Fixed! (Steve Pepin, again!).
! VID now handles extraneous spaces in registration keys. This
occurred when clipping a key from a netmail message. Squashed!
(Thanks to Bart Holiman).
! In the 2.0 datafiles, the "Stealth" flag on several viruses was
not set properly. Squashed!
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■ What's New in Release 2.00? ■
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o Just about everything. A complete re-write.
o Total Virus Count up to nearly 1,500 viruses.
o VID can now be run in two modes (VID Lite mode and VID+ mode)
The difference between the two modes is that VID+ provides detail
information on each virus, whereas with VID Lite, you just get
the pertinent info. The VID+ module is simply a drop-in set of
files for the VID engine. The VID+ module is rather large, thus
the separation for those of you who are low on disk space.
o Virus names are now "color-coded" for recognition purposes.
o Implemented a periodic integrity check on the VID database files
o Improved on multinode/multiuser support, adding support for the
"TASK" environment variable.
o Several large enhancements over the 1.10 menu interface/design.
(See documentation for more information on the new interface).
o Added dropfile support for WildCat! style DOOR.SYS and the new
RemoteAccess 2.0+ style EXITINFO.BBS
o Dropfiles are now automatically detected, rather than specified.
o Tons of minor enhancements and modifications.
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■ What's New in Release 1.10? ■
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o 74 New viruses added to the VID database.
o Added Ability to Query into Virus Lengths.
o "Browse" mode now more global in scope.
o BUG: VID would hang some systems. This was due to a memory
allocation bug in the VID system. Squashed!
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■ What's New in Release 1.00? ■
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o Everything! First release of VID.