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- June 11, 1993 InVircible Shareware Version 5.01
-
- The ZIP file contains four files.
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- README.1ST -- This file.
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- WHITEPA.PER -- A White Paper giving a technical comparison of InVircible
- and other anti-virus technology.
-
- FILE_ID.DIZ -- The BBS filelist entry.
-
- INVRCBLE.EXE -- A self-installing module for InVircible.
-
-
- *** IMPORTANT ***
- PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING ADDENDUM BEFORE USING
- INVIRCIBLE SHAREWARE!
-
- The following information is an addendum to the
- InVircible online help when used with
- the InVircible Shareware product of Sela Consultants
- Corporation (S.C.C.).
-
- *** Before installing InVircible, any "anti-
- virus" TSR must be disabled and not reactivated.
- Anti-virus TSRs are not compatible with
- InVircible's operational requirements. InVircible
- does not require a TSR to be effective!
-
- *** The INSTALL program of InVircible stores the
- InVircible programs on your hard drive in the disk
- partition and directory of your choosing. The
- INSTALL program adds to your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- executions of the InVircible programs V-INIT and
- VGUARD. Do not remove the executions of these
- programs from your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Removal of these
- program executions compromises the protection
- offered by InVircible which requires periodic
- checking of your C:, D: (if D: exists), and E: (if
- E: exists) disk partitions. You may add
- additional detection capabilities to selected BAT
- files using the InVircible INSTALL program's
- (B)atches menu option. You must add VGUARD
- executions for disk partitions beyond E: that are
- not network server partitions.
-
- *** After completing the InVircible Install
- procedure, you are urged to copy your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file to a file that we suggest you call
- SHUTDOWN.BAT. Using your text editor, remove all
- lines except for those executing the InVircible
- programs V-INIT and VGUARD. Before re-booting
- (e.g., a warm-boot) or turning off the power,
- execute this SHUTDOWN.BAT file as one last check
- of your system for viruses. This will detect boot-
- sector and other viruses that enter your system
- and activate after the AUTOEXEC.BAT executions (or
- later executions you run) of V-INIT and VGUARD.
- The suggested SHUTDOWN.BAT file will enable you to
- detect boot sector viruses at a point from which
- recovery will be with less effort than if you wait
- until after your next hard disk boot.
-
- *** DOS 5.0 or Central Point PC Tools' users are
- urged to consider the usefulness of taking
- advantage of the MIRROR command, which saves the
- File Access Table (FAT) for the disk partitions
- you specify. If you use the MIRROR command in the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file, copy the UNFORMAT command to a
- secure diskette.
-
- *** DR-DOS 6.0's users are urged to consider the
- usefulness of taking advantage of the DISKMAP
- command, which performs the same functions as PC
- Tools' MIRROR command. If you use of the DISKMAP
- command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, copy the
- UNDELETE command to a secure diskette.
-
- *** The (B)atches menu option of the INSTALL
- program will not insert a VIRTEST execution for
- BAT files that are less than four lines long.
-
- *** Users of monochrome laptops & notebooks may
- need to place a MODE MONO command before the V-
- INIT and VGUARD executions in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file. This is sometimes needed to supersede the
- VGA color default of some BIOS chips, especially
- those used by some DELL laptops.
-
- *** DR-DOS 6.0's users that create a Stacker
- partition as D: and that also create a standard
- FAT partition as E: will need to add a line in
- AUTOEXEC.BAT that is identical to the VGUARD
- execution for C:, except that "E:" appears instead
- of "C:". Any DOS user that uses "D:" for other
- than a hard disk FAT partition who also has an
- "E:" hard disk FAT partition will need to follow
- this advice directed to DR-DOS 6.0 users!
-
- *** DOS users with only one or two hard disk
- partitions (C: and D:) and that use the DOS device
- driver DRIVER.SYS to add additional definitions
- for the A: or B: floppy drive, will find that the
- VGUARD execution in AUTOEXEC.BAT may ask for a
- diskette to be inserted for floppy drives "D:" (if
- only one hard disk partition is defined) and "E:"
- (if one or two hard disk partitions are defined).
- To eliminate the requirement to insert a diskette
- for VGUARD in this specific use of DRIVER.SYS, use
- FDISK to create additional hard disk partitions so
- that you have at least three hard disk partitions
- defined.
-
- *** The references in the online help
- that describe transfers of the InVircible
- VCARE Authorization Key between the InVircible
- diskette and the hard disk do not apply to
- InVircible Shareware. Recovery and disinfection are
- enabled only in the InVircible Lite and InVircible
- Professional products. The manual delete-and-replace
- option is the only virus removal technique provided for
- with InVircible Lite.
-
- *** Repeated viewing of the InVircible online
- help (or readings of the printed manual) will
- provide you with the background you need to handle
- an actual virus attack with confidence. The least
- effective time to learn what is in online help or
- the printed manual is after a virus has attacked!
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