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---------Version 2.27a
This version primarily includes an improved F-MACROW program. Note
that the database used by this version is incompatible with older
databases.
In addition detection/disinfection of a few hundred new viruses was added
to F-PROT itself.
---------Version 2.27
We apologize for version 2.27 being late. The major reason is that we
wanted to add proper detection of Office '97 Word and Excel macro viruses,
as contrary to what you might have been led to believe, the anti-virus
features added to the latest version of Word do not make it virus-proof.
Getting the required information from Microsoft took much longer than
anticipated, and we were forced to spend a considerable part of our
developers' time on reverse-engineering certain parts of the file format.
Version 2.27 - major changes:
There are no major changes in 2.27, which will probably be the last
version of the scanner using our "old" technology, as we have been
busy creating an improved product: F-PROT 3.0, which among other
things will combine the F-PROT and F-MACROW programs into one.
Most of the new viruses added to this version are macro viruses.
We added detection/disinfection of over 600 Word and Excel viruses
since version 2.26 was released - those viruses are all handled by
the F-MACROW program, not F-PROT itself.
Version 2.27 - the following problems were found and corrected:
No problems were reported to us that needed correction.
Version 2.27 - the following false alarms were fixed:
INSTALL.COM Possibly a new variant of Creator
PEAS.COM Possibly a new variant of Creator
REDIR.COM Possibly a new variant of Darth_Vader
SERVER.COM Possibly a new variant of Darth_Vader
MUM.EXE New or modified variant of Jerusalem
SUCH.EXE Possibly a new variant of Cascade
Version 2.27 - minor improvements and changes:
The .DOC files that were included with F-PROT have been renamed and
given a .TXT extension, as they are just plain ASCII files.
The DISTRIB.TXT file now states it clearly that we consider the
Virus Simulator from Rosenthal Engineering a virus-construction tool,
and any site offering that program is therefore not permitted to offer
F-PROT. Restricting the distribution of our program this way may seem
strange, but we consider this an ethical issue - we do not wish to
support the creation of viruses in any way, and allowing F-PROT to
be distributed together with viruses or virus-construction tools could
be interpreted as support for virus development.
Version 2.27 - new viruses:
The following 6 viruses are now identified, but can not be removed as
they overwrite or corrupt infected files. Some of them were detected by
earlier versions of F-PROT, but not identified accurately.
HFR.702
HLLO (4184, 4476 and 5071)
Phile.210
Trivial.32.H
The following 54 new viruses can now be removed. Many of them were
detected by earlier versions, but are now identified accurately.
_839
_6153
Badsector.3150.B
BW.753
CheapExe.828
Countdown (1300 and 1363)
Cuareim.800.B
Danish_tiny.333.E
Eco.B
Eel.360
ExVC (507, 514, 659 and 777)
FairGround.813
Gobot.2099
Hector.548
Hippie
HLLC (8304 and Bizarre)
HLLP (4496, 7981, 10224 and 11840)
Immortal.2174.F
Inferno.1800
Int_7F
Istanbul.1367
IVP (608, 614, 648.B and 669)
MainMan (200 and 213)
Major (1644.B and 1644.C)
Mercury.831
NYB.B
Raubkopie.1888.C
Revenge_II.2816
Small_comp.101.C
Spanska (1120.B and 1500)
Spic.990
Tere.370
Tiffany.440
Tricky.218
Vacsina (1206.C and 1212.C)
Vienna (433 and 444)
Wolleh
Zwick.505
Additionally, as mentioned above, detection and disinfection of
over 600 macro viruses was added.
The following 30 new viruses are now detected and identified but can not
yet be removed.
Blotus.2470
Cordobes.3294
Corea.1809
ExVC (504.B, 507.B, 532, 672 and 686)
Happy_Professor.506
HLLP (5850.A, 5850.B, 5850.C, 5850.D and Weed.7072)
IVP (744.B and 892)
KrK.800
Major.908
MBD.1317
Mephisto (446, 1140 and 1223)
NRLG (651, 659, 760 and 945)
Olivia (2152 and 2374)
President.1504
Small_comp.101.D
The following 1 virus which was identified by earlier versions can
now be removed.
Johnny.826
The following viruses have been renamed:
HLLP.4080 -> HLLP.Weed.4080
IVP.648 -> IVP.648.A
NYB -> NYB.A
Sierra.A-D -> NYB.B-E