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- Notes:
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- TBSCAN does not mean TurBo-SCAN as some users assume, but stands for
- Thunderbyte Scan. TBSCAN is supplied with the Thunderbyte disk.
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- TBSCAN needs a signature file TBSCAN.DAT or VIRUSSIG.DAT. Because these
- files are updated a lot, they are not supplied with this package. Both
- of these files are availabel at Thunderbyte support BBS +31-85-212395 or
- at many other BBSs.
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- Some users think that scanning for all viruses in all files is the best
- scanning method (by using "TBSCAN *.* -a +n"). This is not true: It only
- increases the possibility of false alarms. It is not usefull to scan for
- bootsector viruses in .COM files or to scan for COM viruses in .EXE
- files. Use this option only when you already encountered a virus and
- want to make sure that you really destroyed all infected files.
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- If you use another virusscanner after running TBSCAN, it is possible
- that that other scanner finds signatures of viruses in memory. This does
- not mean that you have a virus, but is caused by the fact that the other
- virusscanner detects the signatures left in memory by TBSCAN. The same
- applies to TBSCAN, it will also find signatures left in memory by other
- virusscanners. Future versions of TBSCAN will destroy their data before
- they quit. Hopefully other scanners will be adapted also!
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- Due to safety routines in the TbScan program, it can not be compressed
- with programs like PkLite, LzExe, or Diet. This is not very painfull
- after all because the file isn't that big!
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