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If you have any ideas or suggestion, don't hesitate please to contact
authors.
If you have any macro virus on your PC which HMVS can't detect by its name,
send it us please. Its recognition will be added into program in few
minutes after its receiving.
2.50 25-jan-98
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- added Word'97 heuristics
- added cleaner for Word'97 (thanks to Richard Marko, ESET Ltd.)
- added cleaner for Excel'97 (thanks to Richard Marko, ESET Ltd.)
- cleaner for Excel 5/7 has been completely rewritten (now is OK)
(thanks to Richard Marko, ESET Ltd.)
- dissector for Word'97 and Excel'97 has been improved
HMVS is now able to generate listing for *ALL* macro modules including
frm modules and ThisDocument module.
There is no more limitation for number of modules in file !
(thanks to Richard Marko, ESET Ltd.)
- added switch /HLO for low heuristics
HMVS has three levels of heuristics now - low (/HLO), standard (default)
and high (/HHI)
- fixed file open bug in share mode
2.10 6-jan-98
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- added source code generator for MS Word 6,7 macros able to generate
source code even for corrupted macros !
(use HMVS [filename] /SOURCE to generate source code of macros)
- lot of improvements and bugfixes in '97 scanning engine
- improved source code generator for Excel'97 and Word'97
- signature file has been optimized for size
- the number of displayed names of macros is no more limited to 10 in
the SHAREWARE version
- added detection of new viruses
2.00ß 17-dec-97
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- added neural network driven scanner for MS Word 6,7 viruses (beta test)
- added scanning engine for Excel'97 and Word'97 files (beta test)
- added source code generator for Excel'97 and Word'97 macros
(use HMVS [filename] /SOURCE to generate source code of macros)
- added detection of new viruses
1.46 5-nov-97
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- added detection of new viruses
1.45 15-sep-97
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- added detection of new viruses
1.44 9-aug-97
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- added detection of new viruses
1.43 3-aug-97
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- smart CRC scanning support
- scaning single file from command line
- added detection for polymorphic viruses WinWord.Vicis.A,
WinWord.Hunter.C
- added detection for about 20 new macro viruses
- minor bugs fixed
1.42 8-jul-97
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- rewritten OLE2 to support scanning nested documents (OLE2 documents
inserted to OLE2 documents)
- exact detection of all possible variants of Slovak polymorphic virus
UglyKid.A
- added universal algorithmic scanner for polymorphic viruses
- added detection for about 20 new macro viruses
1.41 1-jun-97
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- fixed some bugs
- added detection for over 30 new macro viruses
1.40 11-maj-97
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- Excel 7.x macro virus scanning and cleaning (see user manual !)
- generic Excel 7.x macro virus scanner
- long file names support under Windows'95
- improved heuristics
- added 2 new heur. flags
- added new switch /SIMPLE for more user friendly output to the screen
- added detection for 35 new macro viruses
1.32 1-maj-97
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- heuristics improved
- added 2 new heur. flags
- added detection of 70 new viruses
- added switches /CV+ and /CV- for converting infected file back to the
document format (see manual)
1.31 2-apr-97
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- fixed bug in algorithmic scanners. Now can HMVS detect by name all
possible mutations of Slow viruses
1.30 31-mar-97
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- added algorithmic scanners for the new generation of hard polymorphic
macro viruses
- new switch /HHI for deep analysis of a macros (whole macro is analyzed)
- added detection of new macro viruses
1.25 23-mar-97
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- added detection of new macro viruses
1.24 23-feb-97
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- several changes in code has been done
- heuristics improved
- fixed bug causing incorrect handling of large files
- heuristics is now able to support Macintosh format of Word documents
- less false positives
- added detection of new macro viruses
- added list of detected macro viruses
1.23 28-jan-97
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- added detection of new macro viruses
1.22 26-jan-97
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- added detection of new macro viruses
- heuristics improved
1.21 13-jan-97
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- added detection of new macro viruses
1.20 6-jan-97
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- more precise detection of viral macros with using CRC16
- less false positive alarm caused by heuristics
- recognition of MS Word / Office'97 documents (without scanning and
analysing)
- added detection of new macro viruses
- added /FLG cmd line switch for displaying heur. flags
1.10 1-dec-96
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- new OLE 2 parser
- added detection of streams containing macros in MS EXCEL files
- added few new virus signatures
- fixed all known bugs
1.06 13-oct-96
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Added detection of new macro viruses.
1.05 1-oct-96
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/EXT option can now decrypt macros with unlimited size.
HMVS is from now distributed via SimTel too.
1.04 24-sep-96
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Heuristics was slightly improved. Added new three heuristic flags.
Corrected recognition of asian type of strings (fixed in emul8r).
For selected flags is number of their occurences displayed too.
Added /EXT option for registered user.
1.03 8-sep-96
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Added some new viruses. Fixed subdirectories scanning bug. Fixed bug
with detecting asian versions of MS Word document.
Warning: This version doesn't scan Excel files, however it always display
OK after *.XLS filenames, because scan routine isn't yet finished.
1.02 4-sep-96
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Some hidden bugs were corrected. Added short user manual.
1.01 1-sep-96
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Detection of 13 new macro viruses has been added.
1.00 25-aug-96
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First official release. Can recognize directly 28 MS Word macro viruses
+ powerfull & intelligent heuristic scanner.