Share Gallery 1/share_gal_1.zip/share_gal_1/UT/UT213.ZIP/I-MAST.EXE/HISTORY.DOC

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Version: 1.13a (Released April 13, 1992)

1) Over 90 new viruses are recognized by name including: Ada, Alabama 2,
   Antimon, Argentina, Barcelona, CAZ, Criminal, DM-330, Danish-251,
   Danish-Stigmata, EUPM, Fichv 2.0, Forger, Gliss, Got You, Gotcha-D,
   Grune, Halloween, Infinity, Itti, Japanese Cookie, new Jerusalem
   variants, KO-408, Kalah, Leprosy-C2, Leprosy-Viper, Macedonia,
   Mannequin, Manuel, Ministry, Moctezuma, Mshark, Multiface, Mummy,
   NineComp, November 17th, Padded, new Parasite Variants, Pathhunt,
   Peach, Pisello, Sadis, Screamer, Seventh Son Smiley, Squawk, Stupid
   Rock, Tabulero, Tic, new Timid variants. Traceback-3029, Trivial-38,
   Vienna variants, Vienna-Viperize, Violetta, Void Poem, We're here,
   Wonder, Yafo,

2. False alarm of the the Shirley virus in the German version of Norton's
   FR.EXE corrected.

3. Deleted directories are now reported even if checking is limited to
   programs.

Version: 1.12b (Released March 17, 1992)

1) Confusing text in some of the .DOC files corrected.

2) A warning message now appears before you write an auto-named report file
   to a floppy which you are checking.  The message reminds you to wait
   until IM has finished processing before you insert a new diskette.

3) IM and SETUPIM are modified to understand the old halt on "None" option as
   the new halt on "Serious problems".  Version 1.12a reported "BAD HALT"
   in this case.

4) High ASCII and low ASCII characters found in directory names are now
   displayed as a "?".  This eliminates possible garbage on the screen.

5) In addition to taking you back to your starting disk, IM now also brings
   you back to your initial directory when you exit.

Version: 1.12a (Released March 13, 1992)

1) For people who want to run totally unattended or who don't want to have
   to hit a key to acknowledge serious problems, we have added the /NE
   (Nonstop except for Emergencies) command line parameter.  IM will pause
   only when it absolutely must, to avoid loss of critical information or to
   avoid spreading a virus (in the case of a virus detected in memory).
   This allows you to run IM unattended even when files won't open,
   can't be read or contain viruses.  You can also use the halt menu to
   temporarily or permanently select this option.

2) Over 50 new viruses are recognized by name including  Anto, Beware,
   Crazy Imp, Hafenstrasse, Keyboard bug, Screamer Tiny Ghost, Vindicator
   Kuzmitch and Zherkov.

3) IM does additional consistency checking between the files themselves and
   their associated directory entries.  This allows detection of missing
   or incorrectly chained clusters even if IM has never been used on the disk.

4) The programs SETUPIM.EXE and IM.EXE are now further compressed for use on
   smaller disks.

5) Integrity Master will now automatically close the report file after it
   finishes a check or initialize on a disk.  This prevents a potential
   problem caused when IM writes the report file to a floppy which is then
   removed from the drive and replaced with anther floppy.  We've had reports
   of damaged report files due to the switch of diskettes with the open
   report files.

6) We cut the delays for the statistics summary screen and the termination
   report in no halt mode with batch commands (eg. /CE /CR)(/N) to wait for
   only  10 seconds.

Version: 1.11a (Released Feb 17, 1992)

 1)Over 100 new viruses are recognized by name including Big Joke,
   Brainy, Micro elephant, Boojum, a new version of Dir-2, Little
   Brother, Lower Case, Hitchcock, Hydra series of viruses, Jihuu, Dr. Q,
   Haifa, Maltese Amoeba (AKA Irish), the MPS-OPC series of viruses,
   Parity, PC-Flu-2, Pregnant.!!!,, seventh son,  and SVC 6.  Numerous
   existing virus recognition patterns have been updated including the
   pattern for the Sentinel virus.  This virus appears to have been
   written in Turbo Pascal and produced a false indication in a
   shareware financial program.

 2)A summary display has been added to summarize the results of checking
   in detail.  This appears on the display and on the report file or
   printer after any file checking.  Since it contains a time and date
   stamp, you can now use the report file as a chronological log of all
   changes on your PC even if you have it going to the printer.

 3)The explanation of possible false alarms now only appears with the
   first file virus, not with subsequently detected viruses.

 4)The false alarm explanation is now written (once) to the report file for
   users who run unattended.

 5)Fix of problem which occurred when the screen report was turned off and
   resulted in added files not being included on the report file.

 6)Any change to the command interpreter is now categorized as suspicious.

 7)If a files is found to be infected with a known virus, the existing
   integrity data will be retained for that file; This makes it easier
   to verify that everything is OK, when the file is deleted and restored.

 8)Improved recovery on hardware problems with integrity data files
   themselves.

Versions 1.03a/b/c and 1.10a/b were limited release beta versions.
   These versions are not for public use.

Version: 1.02b  (released 12/18/91)

  Quick reissue of 1.02a. Version 1.02a was missing the VTEXT.DOC file.

Version 1.02a:  (released 12/16/91)

 1)The documentation in the I-M.DOC (formerly IM.DOC) file has been
   significantly improved.  Sections have been completely rewritten and
   a complete index is now included.

 2)Forty-three new viruses are recognized by name and characteristic
   (VTEXT.DOC contains the complete list).  Most best known among these
   viruses are: Black Wizard, Fake-VirX, Gotcha, Iron Maiden, Murphy
   Brothers, PC-Flu, Plovdiv, SVC 5.0, and Words (2 variants).

 2)The procedure for removing cluster viruses (DIR-2) improved.

 3)We've corrected the list of files generated in IMPROC.TXT by SETUPIM.
   Several typos in the file descriptions were corrected and SAMPVIR.BIN
   is removed as a separate file, since it is not created until
   GENVIR.EXE is run.

 4)The file name of the documentation file (IM.DOC) has been changed to
   I-M.DOC.  Also the recommended file name for BBS posting has been changed
   to I-M102.  This has been done to prevent to many files from being copied
   when users try to copy IM*.* onto a 360K floppy.

 5)Since IMSETUP.EXE will often not fit on a 360K bootable floppy along
   with IM.EXE, we have renamed it to SETUPIM.EXE.  This allows you to
   copy all vital files for a bootable floppy with a single "COPY IM*.*"
   command.  This copy was failing because unnecessary files including
   IMSETUP.EXE were being copied to diskette.

 6)We corrected the failure of V1.01 to automatically change directories
   when multiple directory names of the form 12345678.ABC were
   encountered.

 7) The file viewing program ("IMview") is now our own 1K optimized
    assembler rather than the prior 3rd party written program.

Version 1.01A:

   First general release (non-beta test) version of IM mailed world-wide
   out via the November 1991 Association of Shareware Professionals
   (ASP) mailing. (Mailed ~11-15-91).

Versions prior to 1.01a were beta versions and should no longer be used.