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- FixUtilities copyright (C) 1989-1993 by Padgett - all rights reserved.
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- FixUtil6 is the October 1993 revision of the FixUtils.
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- WHAT'S NEW
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- The FixUtils are now all FREEWARE.
-
- If you find them worthwhile, please drop me a note saying so, it would be
- nice to know.
-
- For the Lawyers: A limited license is hereby granted such that any
- individual may use these copyrighted programs (see list below) without
- any charge of any kind so long as they are not altered nor are any deposited
- programs or code fragments altered in any way. Specifically, copyright
- notices and logos must display anytime a program or deposited code fragment
- executes.
-
- Distribution must include this notice.
-
- Weasel-Words: There are no warranties either granted or implied for fitness
- of any kind, use of these programs is entirely at the risk of the user.
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- Major Changes v6
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- Additional checking added to CHKBOOT, FIXMBR, FIXFBR, SAFEMBR for the
- new crop of directed viruses and some techniques not seen yet but
- could be. NoFBoot/SomFBoot now need only 256 bytes as TSR.
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- Major Changes v5
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- FixMBR now generates automatically a copy of the original MBR with
- a user designated name of up to 7 characters. This .DAT file should be
- stored in a safe place off-line. When changed to a .COM file and executed,
- the original MBR will be restored.
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- On machines having BIOS selection of the boot disk, users may now select
- booting only from the C: drive for additional protection from viruses.
- If the CTRL key is held down during the boot, SafeMBR, following integrity
- checking of the hard disk MBR will transfer the boot process to drive A:
- to allow booting from floppy for maintenance purposes.
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- Other
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- a) For those wishing a special corporate logo to display (e.g. "XYZ Corp.
- For Authorized Use Only") or suppression of the floppy boot option,
- this can be provided for a one-time-fee.
-
- b) Gifts cheerfully accepted. (POBox 1203, Windermere, FL, USA, 34786)
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- Note: This distribution consists of fourteen files:
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- FixUtil6.new - Changes
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- FixMBR30.doc - Documentation/Mini Tutorial for FixMBR
- FixFBR2.doc - Documentation for FIX floppy boot records
- FixMBR30.exe - the MBR repair/save program
- FixFBR2.exe - repair boot sectors of floppies
- ChkSMBR.exe - the DOS SafeMBR check program
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- NoFBoot.doc - documentation
- NoFBoot.com - simple floppy boot protection
- SumFBoot.com - when you need to sometimes
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- Chk.doc - Documentation for ChkMEM, ChkBoot, & ChkCMOS
- ChkCMOS2.exe - Checks CMOS for IBM-AT & PS/2 type values
- ChkMEM.exe - memory usage program
- ChkBoot.exe - checks for suspicious boot sectors
- (floppy & hard disks)
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- FixUtil6.val - Validation numbers from PKZIP (tm)
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