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- A history of changes to F-PROT, after the release of version 2.00
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- **** Version 2.01 ****
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- Important note: My E-mail address has changed and is now "frisk@complex.is"
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- No major new features were added in 2.01 - it just fixed some bugs in
- 2.00, and adds detection/removal of a lot of now viruses - over 100.
-
- Version 2.01 - corrections:
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- The name of the main program was changed from F2.EXE to F-PROT.EXE,
- as several other programs (including a part of Microsoft's FORTRAN
- compiler) were already named F2.EXE
-
- Some problems regarding user-defined signatures have been fixed.
-
- A false alarm of a "Whale" infection in the GMOUSE.COM (Genius Mouse
- driver) and a program named XTRA.COM has been corrected.
-
- Version 2.00 would not work in interactive mode on a machine with a XGA
- or a Monochrome MCGA display. This has been corrected.
-
- Some characters above 128 were corrupted if a report was saved to a
- file.
-
- If floppy drives were installed with other identifiers than A: and B:,
- the program would try to access them on startup, which caused problems
- if no disk was inserted.
-
- The "Analysis" function now produces fewer false positives than before,
- and known false positives are now listed in ANALYSE.DOC
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- The program should now work without problems on Zenith DOS 3.30 PLUS.
-
- Some variants of the Vacsina virus were occasionally not disinfected
- correctly - this has been fixed.
-
- The Amoeba virus was not detected in .COM files with size above a
- certain length, although it was always stopped by VIRSTOP. Fixed.
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- Version 2.01 - improvements:
-
- VIRSTOP.EXE can now be loaded as a device-driver, with a DEVICE=
- command from CONFIG.SYS.
-
- Two command-line switches were added:
-
- /NOMEM skip the initial memory scan. It should only
- be used if the computer is known to be "clean".
-
- /USER scan for user-defined virus patterns.
-
- The program used to scan subdirectories in "reverse" order - this has
- now been changed.
-
- F-PROT.EXE is now distributed in packed (run-time unpacking) form, so
- that the the entire package fits on one 360K diskette after unpacking.
-
- Version 2.01 - new viruses:
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- The following 89 new viruses (or new variants of old viruses) can be
- detected and removed with version 2.01
-
- 864
- 1876
- Akuku-Copmpl
- AT-144
- Backtime (Blinker, Joker and Shaker)
- Big Joke
- Bulgarian 123
- Cascade 1704-D
- CSL (Microelephant)
- Copyright
- DM-400
- Eddie-1530
- Europe '92
- F709
- Fake VirX
- Gergana (222, 300, 450 and 512)
- Gosia
- Gotcha (A, B and C)
- Hary Anto
- Hey You-928
- Hungarian-482
- Iron Maiden
- Jabberwocky
- Jerusalem (4 minor suMsDos variants, Messina, Nemesis, P and B-3)
- Jerusalem-Frere Jacques-C
- Jerusalem-Plastique-4096-D
- Jihuu
- Kuku
- Leningrad-543, Leningrad-600
- Little Brother
- Lozinsky-1018
- Milous
- Minimal-30-B
- Mono-1063
- MPS-OPC (1.1, 3.1 and 3.2)
- MSTU
- Murphy-Brothers
- Old Yankee-Black Wizard
- Omega
- Path
- PC-Flu
- Pixel (Polish-457, Polish-550, 897, 899-A, 899-B and 905)
- Plovdiv (New Bulgarian 800)
- Polish Color
- Polish Minimal-45
- Semtex
- Seventh son
- Spanz
- Socha
- Something
- StinkFoot
- SVC-1740
- Tony
- Traveller
- Twin
- Vienna (634, 656, 726 and 776 byte variants, Violator B/B3)
- Voronezh-370
- W13 (C, 377 and REQ!)
- Words (1069, 1085, 1387 and 1503)
- Yankee (1150 and 1202 byte variants)
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- The following 13 new viruses can now be detected but not removed.
-
- Best Wishes-970
- DIR II
- Eddie-Ps!ko
- Hero-394
- Possessed-2446
- Simulate
- Squeaker
- StinkFoot-2
- SVC (5.0 and 6.0)
- Vacsina-Rybka
- Virdem-1542
- W13-361
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- "Variant identification" of the following viruses has been improved:
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- Cascade (14 variants)
- Sentinel (5 variants)
-