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- VShell
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- Deluxe Shell System For McAfee SCAN/CLEAN Programs
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- Version 2.02
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- 1990, 1991 (c) KsofT Development
- Chief Data Recovery Co. ISRAEL
- P.O.Box 499
- Nes-Ziona 70400
- ISRAEL
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- Phone +972-8-400-070
- Fax +972-8-403-295
- 24H support BBS +972-3-966-7562
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- Introduction
- ------------
- VShell was first written as a hebrew shell for McAfee Associates anti-
- virus programs to be distributed in the Israeli 32Bit Magazine.
- During the time VShell was developed and today it's the most powerful
- shell for the famous McAfee SCAN and CLEAN utilities. It also provides
- a good interface for the VIRLIST contained in the SCAN/CLEAN packages
- and to Patricia M. Hoffman's virus information summary list known as
- VSUM.
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- System Requirements
- -------------------
- Vshell requires DOS version 3.00 or above in order to run correctly.
- Vshell needs about 130K of free memory to itself, plus the memory
- needed for SCAN/CLEAN. (About 200-240K free memory is needed for
- SCAN84).
- It is best to run Vshell with at least 512K free RAM. It is also
- recommended that Vshell will run after booting from a clean system
- diskette with no resident programs (TSR) loaded.
- VShell 2.01 works with SCAN and CLEAN programs from version V84 or
- newer. It will not work correctly, or even not at all with earlier
- versions.
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- Validation
- ----------
- To check the integrity of the programs in the VShell package, you may
- use McAfee's VALIDATE utility. The output of the Validate program
- should match the following:
-
- File Name: VSHELL.EXE
- Size: 49,942
- Date: 1-29-1992
- File Authentication:
- Check Method 1 - 4994
- Check Method 2 - 144B
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- File Name: VSETUP.EXE
- Size: 25,830
- Date: 1-29-1992
- File Authentication:
- Check Method 1 - 3955
- Check Method 2 - 1BC9
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- File Name: VIRINFO.EXE
- Size: 25,481
- Date: 1-29-1992
- File Authentication:
- Check Method 1 - 4DE2
- Check Method 2 - 0B70
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- If you get different results - Don't use the program!
-
- Installation
- ------------
- As you start the VShell installation proccess, you must make sure that
- SCAN.EXE, CLEAN.EXE and VIRLIST.TXT are on your path. Run the VSETUP
- program to configure VShell to your needs and to compile the Virlist.
- After the setup you can start VShell by typing VSHELL at the DOS
- prompt and pressing ENTER.
-
- The fastest way to run VSETUP with the /AUTOSETUP command line
- parameter. This will force VSETUP to create a default configuration
- file for VSHELL and to automaticaly compile the VIRLIST.TXT.
- Note that all output files will be created in the current directory
- and any previous configurations will be ignored.
-
- You may run VSETUP without any command line parameter to custom VShell
- to your needs.
-
- NOTE: If you are upgrading from previous version of VSHELL, you must
- remove the old VSHELL.CFG from the path. The current VSHELL.CFG
- is not compatible with any previous version.
- However, you may run VSETUP /AUTOSETUP to ignore these files.
- VSETUP /AUTOSETUP will create all VShell files in the currect
- directory.
-
- Using Vshell
- ------------
- After running Vshell from the DOS prompt, a menu will be displayed,
- and you then may select any desired option by using the numeric arrow
- keys or a mouse. Each of the first two options will run either SCAN or
- CLEAN.
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- The third option will display the last report generated by SCAN or
- CLEAN, if it exist.
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- The fourth option will interface you to the VIRLIST.VSH that was
- previusly created from VIRLIST.TXT contained in the SCAN package.
- This interface will display all the available data on a specific virus
- as it appears in the list.
- When selecting a virus to see information about, you may either perss
- ENTER to view the information from the VIRLIST or the '+' key to
- interface directly to Patricia M. Hoffman's VSUM HyperText virus
- information system. This option will not always work correctly due to
- the fact that VIRLIST and VSUM sometimes have different names for the
- same virus or the virus name is spelled differently.
-
- The Fifth option lets you read the documentations of SCAN, CLEAN and
- VShell from within. VShell looks for SCANVxx.DOC and CLEANxx.DOC in
- the dos path. The xx in the filenames stands for the version number as
- recognized by VShell from reading the Virlist.
- The full screen viewer uses a disk swap file so this option will work
- only on a non write protected drive, and there should be enough disk
- space for the swap file. The swap file size may may vary according to
- the size of the document currently displayed.
-
- Vshell usage is self explanatory and the bottom line of the screen
- contain instructions when they are needed.
-
- When selecting a drive to clean/scan or a virus to display information
- on, you may tag some options by using the <space> key to tag and
- untag. This will allow you to scan/clean multiple drives or view
- information on multiple viruses.
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- If you select a drive by pressing ENTER and not tagging it, VShell
- will scan the disk for sub-directories, and will display a list of
- them. If you want to run over one directory, just move the bar to it's
- name and press ENTER. VShell will ask you if you like to scan all sub
- directories of that directory.
- If you press ESC from the directory list, the entire disk will be
- scanned. When the Scan/Clean programs are running, you may press
- Ctrl-C to abort their run.
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- If Scan found viruses and a report was created, Clean may use that
- report during it's operation to perform an Auto-Clean operation.
- The SCAN/CLEAN reports may be redirected to the local printer by
- specifying "PRN" in the report filename.
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- When tagging Scan/Clean options, you may press F2 to continue. This
- will cause VShell to save the current tags to VSHELL.CFG, and these
- tags will be used on the next run of VShell, until they are changed.
-
- ... Have fun, and a clean PC.
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- Errors
- ------
- During the execution of SCAN and CLEAN some errors may accrue.
- VShell will display numeric error codes. These are error codes you
- might see from time to time:
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- Error 2 = File not found
- Error 3 = Path not found
- Error 5 = Access denied
- Error 8 = Not enough memory
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- All other errors (if any) are internal to VShell.
-
- Warranty
- --------
- None! Whatsoever!
- Read SUPPORT.DOC for more information.
- VShell was last tested with ViruScan package v86.
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- Credits
- -------
- SCAN and CLEAN are products of Mcafee Associates.
- DOS is copyright of International Business Machines.
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