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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
-