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The Xeno virus showed up just before I was about to release this
version, and has been added. VirusX only knows how to remove this
virus from RAM - NOT how to get it off your disks.
The Xeno virus does no damage that I can see. It has the word
'fastfilesystem' embedded in it, but as far as I can tell, this is
only to make sure that it does NOT infect that file, so your
hard disk will remain safe. It will also not infect any file which
contains any non-alphabetical character (ie, it will infect
'Hello' but not 'Hello.exe').
If VirusX reports that the virus is in RAM, you should take the
version of KV included with this archive, and check every file
from your startup-sequence, as well as any other programs you've
run that session.
If the Xeno virus is found anywhere, it would be a good idea
to check your entire HD (if you have one), and any floppies you
used recently - This virus spreads like wildfire! Any file that
was Opened, or loaded, or even looked at close enough (Lock()'ed)
will be infected.
That brings to 4 the number of Non-Bootblock viruses this version
of VirusX can handle. (IRQ, RLamer, BGS-9, and Xeno). I'm always
interested in seeing more non-bootblock viruses!
Note also that there is a problem with the way this version of
VirusX removes the Revenge of the Lamer virus from RAM. It will
remove it all right, but the machine will probably crash, and
you will probably have to power down to get things back to
normal - I'd rather release it with this bug than make people
wait for me to find the time to fix it. I will release an update
when I can.
You'll probably also notice that this version is quite a bit bigger
than the previous one. I hope to have some time to spend
shrinking it before I release the update to this one... but for now
yes, it's about 7K bigger than the last one. It's current file
size is 19016 Bytes.
This version of VirusX was compiled with Lattice C 5.04, and uses
my SimpleRequest() function to generate the requesters. The source
for SimpleRequest() is available separately from quality PD
collections everywhere. 8-) With these requesters, you need only
hit the first letter of the gadget name to make something happen
(or you can click on it). For requesters with only one gadget,
you can usually just hit return.
...Steve