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- ║ GOBBLER-II Version 2.99ß5 What's NEW ║▐
- ║ Date: 26 Aug 1992 ║▐
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- NEW!!! NEW!!! NEW!!! NEW!!! NEW!!! NEW!!! NEW!!!
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- MAJOR UPDATE !!!
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- Included several COMPLETELY new features, which make
- Gobbler-II unique AV program at the moment. Now G-II becoms
- real Antivirus-TOOLKIT, it includes combination of Utilities
- and System-info program.
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- Please inform me about your opinion on those new features.
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- Several minor bug were fixed, some new viruses were added,
- almost finished renaming to CARO standard system.
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- I hope that ß5 is the last beta version, next will be released
- TRIAL and COMMERCIAL versions, all information about distribution
- and registration will be posted later.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.99ß4 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 31 Jul 1992 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW!!! Major update! Changed (not complete) naming
- system. Gobbler-II will name viruses in STANDARD way
- established by CARO. Names now can be 40 characters long.
- Exact identification of ALL variants will be included in the
- DataBase, we hope that it will help to other AV researches and
- to people who are interested in fight against viruses.
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- NEW!!! We started writing descriptions of viruses.
- In this version we included 10 random choosen descriptions:
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- 10_PAST_3
- Akuku
- Alabama
- Ambulance
- Amoeba
- Andryushka
- AT.144
- Grower
- InDos
- Month_4-6
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- We would like to ask your opinion about them, what you like
- what we shall exclude, what to add? Please send your responces
- on 9:310/2, 2:282/401, +31(0)3200-48835.
- All descryptions are compatible (but not taken from) with Computer
- Viruses Catalog supplied by Virus Test Center in University of
- Hamburg.
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- Gobbler-II again compatible with catcher, before it was
- impossible to find a virus when catcher is active. Catcher
- stopped any virus before G-II could read it.
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- Bug fixed:
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- - PgUp and PgDn keys in help viewer
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- - Bug in log file, G-II placed random ascii characters
- instead of number of files
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- - Where_to_scan|Floppy_drive|Drive dialog box fixed, it
- was impossible to select drive with mouse
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- Improvements:
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- o Virtual emulator improved, what caused increasing of speed
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- o Scanning of MtE-based viruses improved
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- o Option -u (uninstall) added to Catcher
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- And some words about distribution:
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- After several questions about rights and ways of distribution
- we would like to make clear, that, Gobbler-II V299Bx has nothing
- to do with COMMERCIAL version which will be availiable soon from
- COMRAC. Gobbler-II V299Bx is FREE to distribute and use!
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.99ß3 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 22 Jul 1992 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- Several bugs are fixed:
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- - Catcher was not good working with floppy drive B:
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- - Some UNENCRYPTED variants of CoffeeShop(MtE) virus were not detected
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- - Serious bug in the virtual emulator of 80x86
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- All these bugs were found by "Masud Khafir", thanks...
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- Speed of scanning increased on about 10% !!!
- Some new viruses were added into database.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.99ß2 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 19 Jul 1992 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! Gobbler-II is again supplied with Catcher.
- Catcher is an resident monitoring program which uses the
- same techiques as Gobbler-II. Also Catcher is only one
- program availiable today on market which is capable to
- STOP!!! MtE-based viruses. Catcher was almost completely
- rewritten and some bugs were repaired. Now "Swapping" mode
- for catcher is default, and it occupies only 6Kb conventional
- memory.
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- NEW !!! About 70 new viruses were added, almost all
- disinfection routines are included in database. Five(5) more
- MtE-based viruses were added for scanning and DISINFECTION!!!,
- what makes Gobbler-II unique programm in case of disinfection
- MtE-based viruses.
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- IMPORTANT !!! This version has virtual emulation of 80x86, this
- technique allows to find "Bomber" virus without scanning entire
- file. Also was completely rewritten internal run-time disassembler.
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- Hopefully in next release will be some description of viruses
- included in database.
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- Previous information about ßeta testers still valid: everybody who
- will find a bug in the G-II will get official release for FREE.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.99ß1 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 6 Jun 1992 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! By populair demand, finally, Gobbler-II got a
- menu-driven user interface.
- We place this version 2.99ß on public domain, because
- program is now much bigger, and it is not so easy to test all
- parts of it. Anyone who will find a bug inside will get official
- release 3.0 for free. Please contact me directly:
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- Virus Rescue BBS: +31-(0)3200-48835
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- All suggestions and questions are welcome !!!!!!
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- NEW !!! Added 483 more viruses, also this version included MtE
- analyzer which finds 100% of viruses created with Mutation Engine.
- Also analyzer allows to detect exactly which virus it is, now there
- are two viruses created with MtE: Pogue Mahone and Dedicated.
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- Added some new disinfection routines, in official release of version
- 3.0 will be 100% of disinfectors for viruses included in Database.
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.24 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 12 Apr 1992 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! By populair demand, I've removed questionnarie on the
- start of Gobbler-II (finally :-) ).
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- Released new version of manual and package, i.e. registrated
- users now will have FULL descriptions of ALL viruses detected by GII,
- in futher commercial releases will be included hypertext version of
- that VIRUS-DICTIONARY.
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- NEW !!! Included a lot of desinfection routines, bringing the total
- amount of disinfectable viruses to 85%. Added 23 more viruses, now total
- number of variants is 1196!!!
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- NEW !!! Due to several reports of damaging INSTALL.EXE file (full
- package of GII) now it is suplied as two parts:
- 1. INSTALL.EXE
- 2. INSTALL.DAT
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- NOTE!!! Soon will be avaliable beta version of next GENERATION of the
- GOBBLER-II with CAA user interface. If You want to be in Beta-team, i.e.
- to have FREE full beta version, please leave mssage on my BBS.
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- IMPORTANT!!! Phone number of "Virus Rescue BBS" has been changed -
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- NEW NUMBER: +31-(0)3200-48835
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- Also, now I'm availiable by voice 3:00pm - 3:00am (GMT) by number:
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- NEW VOICE NUMBER: +31-(0)3200-27533
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- ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.23 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 14 Dec 1991 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! Increased speed of scanning, in some cases GOBBLER-II
- can be 4(four)!!! times faster than before. It makes GII 3(three)!
- times faster than F-PROT. At least on my computer GII is the fastest
- AV scanner - 500Kb/sec.
- NOTE - this feature avaliable only with option -F.
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- NEW !!! According to new techniques used by virus-writers (DAv),
- improved algorithmic search. New option added -V, it makes GII more secure
- with self modifing viruses.
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- NEW !!! Finaly released GOBBLER-SHELL asked for by numerous people,
- now GOBBLER is fully "menu driven" and "mouse compatible" :-).
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- NEW !!! Included a lot of desinfection routines, bringing the total
- amount of desinfectable viruses to 60%. Changed structure of Database, now
- it'll be smaller with more viruses.
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- NEW !!! By populair demand, the -X (Delete) option has been added,
- now it's possible to delete infected files even without full version.
- A lot of Beta-tests are passed, that is why version changed from
- 18 to 23 directly. Many small bugs are fixed.
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- NEW !!! New option added -I, it will disable INTEGRITY check after
- desinfestion. In some cases GII decides that file will not work after curing,
- and therefore refuse to cure (he is too clever :-) (i mean Gobbler)).
- If you sure that file will work, try with this option.
- NOTE - desinfection is avaliable ONLY if FULL version !
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- I decided to include this file in PD package, and now not only my boss
- will know how i work. :-)
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 2.18 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 14 Dec 1991 │▐
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- NEW !!! I've got access to Fido and VirNet, now i'm availiable
- on 2:281/624 and 9:31/4.
- Included 98 desinfection routines, it makes GOBBLER-II not only virus
- scanner. Bugs in CopyProtection part are fixed, it will be also compatible
- with non 100% IBM-PC compatible computers. Minor upgrade. Removed some
- little bugs and optimized some code. This version is a little bit faster.
- NEW !!! Improved CATCHER, now it will also scan and desinfect viruses
- in memory before installation. Gobbler-II is now fully compatible with
- CATCHER, during scanning Catcher will sleep.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.18 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 27 Now 1991 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! GOBBLER-II is no longer completely free-ware!
- CopyProtection part is released, GOBBLER-II is now supplied as
- self-extracting protected archive. Full version is supplied only
- on KEY-floppy.
- NEW !!! File desinfection engine is released, now database
- will also contain file-cure routines. The first which i included
- desinfection for Michelangelo virus.
- Minor bugs in memory scannig are fixed, speed of memscanning
- dramaticaly improved. A V2P6 virus false positive was corrected.
- NEW !!! Run-time debbuger rewritten on assembler (instead of "C"),
- it makes scanning 25% faster than before.
- GOBBLER-II now also searches for hidden- and system files.
- Also hidden directories will be processed.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.17 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 10 Now 1991 │▐
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- NEW !!! Released memory scanning algorithm, GII now will
- scan and desinfect viruses in all avaliable memory including HMA.
- 401 more viruses added into database(no more in my collection).
- Principles of version number changed:
- First digit - 1: initial release, 2: version with desinfection.
- Second digit - 1+: Scanning and curing in memory.
- Third digit - version nuber (can increase secod digit).
- GOBBLER-II now also checks the partition table for viruses.
- Added the feature asked for by numerous people: "scan several floppies".
- This release also contains many other small improvements and little
- bug fixes.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.06 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 1 Now 1991 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! Database manager is released !!!. Now GII will have
- external "VIRUS DATABASE" - Gobbler.VDB, this makes GII much easy
- to update. 147 new viruses are included. Now procedure of including
- new viruses into database takes about 5 minutes.
- NEW !!! Opened VIRUS RESCUE BBS, 24 hours a day, 9600bps, 02503-24324.
- Improved CATCHER, it will use the same database as GII. Improved tracing
- algorithm of GII, it's now about 25% faster.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.05 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 23 Oct 1991 │▐
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- NEW !!! CATCHER included in package of GOBBLER-II.
- Catcher - is a TSR program which uses the same engine as GII.
- 97 new viruses included. Option -P added, this option allow to
- scan specific files like my*.com. Format of LOG file changed,
- now it will be only time and date of scanning if all files are OK.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.04 Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 11 Oct 1991 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- NEW !!! Algorithmic scanning engine released, now GOBBLER is
- no more "Signature" scanner. Speed increased, now GII is about 50%
- faster, 185 new viruses added, new option included: -R - create
- log file.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.03ß Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 1 Oct 1991 │▐
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- Included new option -B, which allow to run GOBBLER-II without
- questionnarie. Added option -L - scan on network drive. 127 more
- viruses added, scanning algorithm improved.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.01ß Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 20 Sep 1991 │▐
- └──────────────────────────────────────────┘▐
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- Added questionnarie, 20 more viruses. Improved searching
- algorithm. Added option -A to scan in data files.
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- │ GOBBLER-II Version 1.00ß Revisions │▐
- │ Date: 9 Sep 1991 │▐
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- Initial version of user interface and file searching, scanning
- for 37 viruses with algorithm simular to GOBBLER I. Slow scanning
- in memory, desinfection of 19 viruses.
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