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- Scanner, v1.56 (12-Oct-1992) - © 1991,1992 Tor O. Houghton
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-
- PLEASE READ VERSION INFORMATION IN FILE 'Versions'
-
- Please note that this product is a primarily a detector - i.e. it detects
- rather than removes viruses. Removal code for each virus will often come in
- later versions, but as I don't have time to disassemble each virus on the fly
- (unlike Alan Glover) I add the detection routines first so that new versions
- can be released quickly.
-
- A bit about the screen layout:
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- .---------------------------------------------.
- | | <- Current directory
- |=============================================|
- | | <- File found and checked
- | |
- | |
- | |
- |=============================================|
- | | <- File contained material
- | | worth mentioning, and is
- | | therefore written here
- | | with colour coding
- |===============================--------------'
- | |
- | | <- Status report
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-
- A few notes on the colour coding:
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- RED - Scanner found virus code, but could/did not remove it. Such files
- should be removed from where they are and either deleted or
- stored in a safe place for future versions of Scanner (or any
- similar program) to handle them.
- MARK: ⇨
-
- PEACH - Scanner found something but couldn't determine what it was. It
- might be a virus, but Scanner is "not sure".
- MARK: ?
-
- MAGENTA - Scanner found virus code, and successfully managed to remove it
- from the file.
- MARK: ☓
-
- GREEN - Scanner inoculated a file against a specific virus attack. This
- is currently not available. In fact - I don't think it ever will
- be. It *is* a rather useless countermeasure.
- MARK: €
-
- YELLOW - Scanner found a file with an inoculation 'fingerprint', and just
- notifies you of this.
- MARK: -
-
- ORANGE - Scanner found a compressed file.
- MARK: #
-
- A number in paranthesis tailing an infected file indicates infection count.
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-
- Using <Scanner$Dir>.!RunImage from CLI or customized Obey file:
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- *<Scanner$Dir>.!RunImage <param 1> <param 2> <param 3> <param 4>
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- Parameter 1: Scanner search dir, e.g. $ or CFS#SCSI::4.$.Incoming
- Parameter 2: Log file - "_" for default if parameter 3 and 4 are used, else
- blank.
- Parameter 3: Remove inoculation fingerprint? (Y/N)
- Parameter 4: Remove virus code from infected files? (Y/N)
-
- E.g. 1: "*<Scanner$Dir>.!RunImage ADFS::0.$ _ Y N" will remove inoculation
- fingerprints in files located on ADFS drive 0, using the default filename for
- the log file.
-
- E.g. 2: "<Scanner$Dir>.!RunImage ADFS::0.$" will scan ADFS drive 0 without
- taking any action whatsoever.
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