============================================================================ VIRUSZ II REVISION HISTORY ============================================================================ 1.02 Changes/Additions since 1.00: - Added new bootvirues: Runover, Seek'n destroy3 Thanks to Martin Odaischi and to Robert Dahl for discovering and sending them. - Some miswritings in the VirusZ2-1.02.Doc corrected. - Removed the Reqtools Libary in the pack. Mostly users didn't found it nessesery. 1.01 Never released. Didn't work properly on 2.x/3.x. Will be released as 1.03 in a near future instead. 1.00 Changes/Additions since 0.94ß: - Added new bootviruses: Karl Marx, CBM, SCA 666, M_Chat and TFC Evergreen 47.11. Thanks to Martin Odaischi for sending them. - Added new bootviruses: AIFS, NASA, TAI, PVL. Added new linkviruses: Dark Avenger 1 + 2. Thanks to Markus Schmall for sending them. 0.94ß Changes/Additions since 0.93ß: - Added several new bootblock viruses (mostly clones): ABC Viruskiller 1.01, Electro Vision, Exorcist, Grim Reaper, Irak 3, JT Protector 1.0, Lame Game, MAD 3b, Prima Vera 8.0, Starcom 1, 2 and 3. 0.93ß Changes/Additions since 0.92ß: - Added code for safer device calls. Several people told me that previous VirusZ versions crashed immediately when started on their A3000(T). They all had PC0: mounted. This was not a problem of VirusZ at all, but a bug in the mfm.device of Commodore. This device trashes register D3 in the Open() call and therefore caused VirusZ to crash because it uses D3. Time for a little bug fix, Commodore?? Thanks a lot to Axel Folley for his extensive testing. I don't know if I would have found that bug as fast as he did. 0.92ß Changes/Additions since 0.91ß: - Added 'Check Again' gadget to file and sector checker. - Added 'Auto-Save Report' and 'Default Report Path' to the file check preferences. - Added 'Hide OK Vectors' to the vector check preferences. - Rewrote main loop to act as a commodity. VirusZ can now be controlled via Exchange. - Added Shell options and tooltypes CX_PRIORITY, CX_POPKEY and CX_POPUP for standard commodity support. - Added 'Hide' item to project menu. - Added commodity default settings to the misc prefs. - Removed 'Snapshot Window' item from prefs menu. The window now remembers all movements automatically. - Added 'Center Main Window' to the misc prefs to override the remembered window position. - Added 'Close Main Window = Exit' to support both the old CLOSEWINDOW and the standard commodity behaviour. - Added Shell option and tooltype PUBSCREEN. VirusZ can open its windows on any public screen now. - Added Shell option ??=INFO. Use it to get more information about the usage of the other options. - Added new viruses: SnoopDos 1.9 Fake, SnoopDos 2.1 Fake, DWEdit 1.62a Fake, DI Ansi Ed 2.8 Fake, AEReg 3.9, A.I.S.F. 0.91ß Changes/Additions since 0.90ß: - Added bootblock lab (no brain support yet). - Added bootlab preferences. - Removed Unicorn 1.1 from the bootvirus brain. This is not a virus, but a quite unique loader for menus etc. Thanks to the guy from unicorn for calling me. 0.90ß Changes/Additions since 3.07: - VirusZ requires OS2 now. - Redesigned main menu and split it in two parts. - Totally rewritten file check. Uses a multiselect filereq now, has a new window and new preferences. Detects more file types and handles viruses even better than the old one. - Totally rewritten sector check. Only works with trackdisk units now and supports HD drives. Improved Saddam checking in order to prevent wrong diagnostics (same with Little Sven). New window and own preferences have been added. - Totally rewritten vector check. Output may be scrolled now, preferences configure the vectors that should be checked. - Totally rewritten background checker. Works parallel to the main process and therefore can check memory/disks even during a file check. Own preferences. - New preferences format with checksum. This will be compatible with future ones because of standard definition. - Rewritten startup code. - Added internal brain display to VirusZ. - No brain support and all related functions in this release. - No bootblock lab + prefs. - No Shell usage. - 1000 other minor changes I can't remember. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VirusZ 3.07 --> last official release working with Kick 1.3 ;-( ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.07 Changes/Additions since 3.06: - Added new bootviruses: Detlef, Ingo's Return, Angel, Creeping Eel, Fuck Device, XCopy2, Guardians Boot Aids, Killed, Mutilator, Wahnfried, Cascade, Infector, Overkill, PayDay, Sentinel. Thanks to Martin Odaischi, Matthias Gutt and Holger Hesselbarth for sending them. - Added new file- and linkviruses: Sepultura, Bestial Devastation, Virus Construktion Set, CompuPhagozyte 7, Disktroyer 2.0, Saddam 4, Nano 1, Nano 2, ModemCheck 1.1 & ModemCheck LoadWB, UA-Dialer 2.8g, DiskRepair BBS-Link, WhiteBox BBS-Link. Thanks to Martin Odaischi, Markus Schmall, Rüdiger Prang and Stefan Wagner for sending them. - Added all viruses mentioned above to the memory checker. - Splitted the old SCA memory checker into several different routines for better performance. Bug fixes since 3.06: - The timer interrupt had a small bug that prevented the memory checker from being started regularly. 3.06 Changes/Additions since 3.05: - Added two new bootblock viruses: Access Forbidden and Unknown Thanks to Terminator/Destiny for sending them. - Added new version of CopyMemQuicker to the vector checker. 3.05 Changes/Additions since 3.04: - Added new patches to the vector checker: PointerX, CPUBlit 1.00, MemMan2, CopyMemQuicker, CPUClr 2.0. Thanks to Rüdiger Prang and others for sending them. - Added new viruses: Excrement Installer, Laurin (Saddam Clone), Satan, Suicide Machine, TeleCom, SMBX-DOS-Shell. Thanks to Martin Odaischi for sending them. - Added a new version of decrunch.library that supports all CrunchMania modes now (including Huffman compression). - Added again new viruses: SwiftWare 0.98, D/ULog 1.8. Renamed 'DM-Trash' to 'ZAPA Adder'. Thanks to Markus Schmall. Bug fixes since 3.04: - Fixed bugs in linkvirus recognition/removal code. Some versions of LZ virus couldn't be removed correctly and Crime'92 recognition didn't work on all versions. Thanks to Markus Schmall for this hint. 3.04 Changes/Additions since 3.03: - Added RTPatch 0.9ß to the vector checker. Thanks to Mathieu Briol for sending this patch. - Added SwitchNTSC 3.2 and Turboprint Prof. 2.0 to the vector checker. VirusZ won't complain any longer about the resident Turboprint. Thanks to Rüdiger Prang. - Added a new version of DLD to the Tools directory. - Added a new version of decrunch.library to the Libs drawer. This version has bugs fixes in the CrunchMania code and recognizes TurtleSmasher 2.0 now. 3.03 Changes/Additions since 3.02: - Added Arq 1.78 to the vector checker. Thanks to Heinz Lindner for sending it. - Added new viruses: Disk Terminator and a Crime'92 clone. Thanks to Erik Loevendahl Soerensen for them. - Added new option to the preferences: Check Disk-Validator. The D-V check was already implemented until VirusZ 2.26, but has been removed. Now you can optionally use it again. Suggested by Barry R. Maslen, thanks a lot. - Added CLI file check. This is really useful if you intend to use VirusZ in your own scripts. In this mode VirusZ checks only single files and returns a shell errorcode that can be used in scripts. Idea by Holger Wessling, very nice indeed. - Rewritten vector checker. The regularly called checker will no longer complain about the recoverable ram-disk RAD and the Kick 1.3 SetPatch command. Send your own resident tools if you want them to be recognized too. 3.02 Changes/Additions since 3.01: - Added new explode.library to vector checker. - Added recognition for new Saddam clone (1.29). Thanks to Markus Schmall for sending lib and virus. - Added Replex 1.0 to vector checker. Thanks to Ekke Verheul for sending this tool. Bug fixes since 3.01: - VirusZ recognized Replex 1.0 as Menems virus. Thanks to Ekke Verheul for the report. 3.01 Changes/Additions since 3.00: - Added 2 new viruses: Installer of Butonic 3.00, Excrement. Thanks to Martin Odaischi for sending them. 3.00 Changes/Additions since 2.29: - Changed 'About' request. Removed gadget, simply click in the window to close it now. Idea by Holger Wessling. - Added bootblock brainfile support. VirusZ can only load/clear a brainfile, it has to be edited with the new Brain Editor. - Added VZBE 1.00 to the package. - Built up a new brainfile including most of the formerly recognized utility and demo bootblocks. Thanks to Control/Alcatraz, Holger Wessling and Terminator/Destiny for sending new bootblocks. Please add them yourself in the future. - Removed internal utility and demo bootblock brain. ==> Shortened VirusZ about 7kB! - Improved preferences. It's possible to tell VirusZ what size it should use for the output windows in the File, Vector and Sector Checker. Idea by Holger Wessling. - Place your brainfile whereever you want, VirusZ finds it if you enter the correct path and name in the preferences. - Preferences use ReqTools requesters for text input now. Looks better and works perfect. - Added switch in the prefs to enable/disable the 'Are you sure?' request when quitting VirusZ. Idea by Axel Folley. - Added 23(!) viruses: Adam Brierley, BB-Prot, Cobra, Indiana Jones, Influenza, Ingo, Plastique, Unicorn 1.1, Beethoven, D-Structure 1-3, Disk-Killer 1.0, Disk Speed Check 1.01, Liberator 3.0/5.01, PStats, QRDL 1.1, SnoopDos 1.6, Trojan Killer 3.0, VirusMaker 1.0, Disgust, Executors. Thanks to Erik Loevendahl Soerensen, Martin Odaischi and Terminator/Destiny. - Added new patches: Virus Interceptor 1.05, Arq 1.66, WTFPatch, QuickMenus, QMouse, SwitchNTSC. Tested several other new patches, but they all have been recognized correctly. Thanks to Rüdiger Prang, Ulf Jarnefjord and Ralf Thanner. - Added icons for VZBE and the new docs. 2.29 Changes/Additions since 2.28: - Added TopDog 1.0 BBS virus. Thanks to Markus Schmall for sending this virus. - Added Arq 1.77 and RTPatch 1.1 to vector checker. Thanks to Ralf Thanner for these patches. - Added latest decrunch.library with 3 new crunchers. - Added new DLD with a nasty bug fixed. - Added again some patches sent by Rüdiger Prang. Thanks! 2.28 Changes/Additions since 2.27: - Added recognition code for new viruses: Sonja bootvirus, Butonic 3.2 filevirus and Aibon trojans (Express 2.20, acp.ctrl) Thanks to Martin Odaischi for sending them (again:-)) - Added new patches to vector checker. Thanks to Terminator/Destiny for all this stuff. See also the new list of recognized patches in the 'brain.doc'. Bug fixes since 2.27: - GetChangeNum code bugged with dummy devices in the mountlist as used by XFH. Thanks to Markus Stiebeling for this hint. If you use XFH, it would be best to remove all mountlist entries starting with Device = "dummy.device" !!! - Hardware recognition code in the Vector Checker didn't work with MC68040. Hope it does now, thanks to Markus Schmall for the hint. 2.27 Changes/Additions since 2.26: - Totally rewritten bootblock checker. Every drive can be checked now whenever a DISKCHANGED message arrives, even HDs and RADs... Thanks to Markus Stiebeling for reporting the problems with FSE HD-Floppies. I hope it works properly now... - BootLab supports all kind of drives too. If your HD has problems with that, quit and forget it, ok?? - Redesigned BootLab and resized the window for better NTSC font support (fonts up to a size of 20 are supported without problems). - Preferences have a new switch now to forbid checking of all bootblocks on startup. Useful if you have hundreds of partitions. - Changed internal code for keyboard events. This has been made much faster and shorter. Thanks to Addison-Wesley for their books. - Added lots of new patches to the vector checker. Thanks to all the guys who sent them (Ralf, Heinz, Markus etc.) - Added new viruses: REP, Germany, Asylant, Commodore, TimeDate, XPRSpeed 3.2 etc. Thanks to Flake/D-Tect and Martin Odaischi. - Changed protection bit handling in the file checker. Write and Delete bit will only be changed if necessary, thus preventing lots of "Volume xyz is write-protected... " requesters. Thanks to Holger Wessling for this idea. - New decrunch.library should be 100% reliable now. The old one sometimes had problems with Imploder and Titanics... Bug fixes since 2.26: - With saving preferences, you save the window position too. This didn't work with the lower right edge of the screen. Thanks to Axel Folley for finding this tiny little bug. 2.26 Changes/Additions since 2.25: - Added about 30 new custom bootblocks. Thanks to Joker/Rookies, Alexandre Reis and Ralf Thanner for sending them. - VirusZ now requires reqtools.library v38+. This was necessary for the new requester design. You can terminate requesters with Y and N and with the underscored characters in the gadgets now. Requesters will always use topaz 8 for the texts. - All windows work with any font now. No more destroyed window titles and ugly looking menus. Everything is calculated now. Thanks to Holger for nagging until I finally worked on it. - All windows will be locked during a request now, i.e. you cannot enter or select anything until you have terminated the requester. Wait pointer is still set. - Boot Lab action gadgets will now be disabled if the function is currently not available, i.e. Print, Save and Write will be disabled if the buffer is empty. - Added two new preferences settings for the file checker: * Handle Viruses Automatically * * Create File Report * These two should always be used together, but you certainly can use each alone. Read docs for more info. This was suggested by several users during the last weeks, so now you got it! - Allocating several different file requesters now. This is useful because each can hold a different path/filename. E.g. it was really hard to load and save bootblocks from/to different disks cause you always had to change the paths... - Sector checker will no longer recognize/correct wrong block checksums. It only searches for virus stuff now, because it seems that VirusZ didn't handle some harddisk stuff correctly. If you want to repair your disks, use DiskSalv or something similar in future (works better anyway)... - Added new patches to the vector checker: New audio.device, PPLoadSeg 1.0, RTPatch 1.0b, PopUpMenu 3.4, RTDD, LibReq. Thanks to Ralf for sending them. - Added DLD and a new decrunch.library to the package. DLD uses the decrunch.library to load, decrunch and save any files, so this might be useful for the rippers out there:-)) - Cut again some entries at the end of this history to gain some more space for writing lots of useless stuff up here;^) - File Checker uses decrunch.library v34 now, thus being able to print detailed error reports when decrunching failed. Bug fixes since 2.25: - I found out that the console initialization string in the vector checker didn't work correctly with certain window sizes (scrolled always one line to much). Bug fixed!! This is actually a big bug in the console.device. Starting with OS 2.04, the console has several bugs which were not present in Kick 1.3. Time for some fixes, Commodore?? 2.25 Changes/Additions since 2.24: - Added 12 new custom bootblocks. Thanks to Control/Alcatraz for sending them. Bug fixes since 2.24: - Fixed a bug that caused VirusZ to refuse working when the 8 Color WB utility by Nic Wilson is installed. Thanks to Teddy Peterson for reporting this 'unknown feature'. 2.24 Changes/Additions since 2.23: - Added PP Library and ToolsDaemon to the vector checker. - Added new viruses: Hulkster bootblock virus, DM-Trash and Show SysOps fileviruses. - Added recognition and reparation code for 5 different Saddam clones to the sector checker. - Replaced decrunch.library with an updated and finally bugfree version. - Removed data file recognitions from the main program because crunched datafiles are recognized by the new library now. Bug Fixes since 2.23: - Fixed a very tiny bug in the vector checker. If the serial.device is flushed out of memory, its vectors in the Exec Internals are set to -1. This was reported as 'Please Check'. Fixed. 2.23 Changes/Additions since 2.22: - Added several new patches for recognition in the vector checker: FastMemCopy, CPUCLR, DosPatch, TagScreens etc. Thanks to Ralf Thanner for sending all this stuff. - Added bootblock recognition for A1000 Kickstart disks. Again thanks to Ralf for this hint. - Replaced decrunch.library with an updated version that is able to decrunch much more files now. Bug fixes since 2.22: - Minor bug fixed in the vector checker. If you have a replacement of a normally ROM-based library/device that is in RAM, the vector checker reported all vectors as 'Please check' (e.g. mathffp.library by M. Berndt). Thanks to Ralf for this hint again. 2.22 Changes/Additions since 2.21: - Added several new patches to the vector checker: NickPrefs, ReqChange 1.11, RTPatch 1.0, DiskCache 2.00, Xoper 1.2, Xoper 2.3 etc. Thanks to Heinz Lindner for sending some of them. - Added additional printing of the KickMemPtr/KickTagPtr entries from execbase to the vector checker. - Totally rewrote the entire memory check section of VirusZ. If you have a virus in memory, only the virus will be removed, other resident tools will no longer be deleted. The KickTag chain will now be completely scanned, every RomTag is checked for its own. All code has been speeded up and shortened a bit, interrupts used by viruses will be corrected both at their hardwired positions and relative to VBR. ALL (!!) killing routines have been tested (I just spent some hours of installing, checking for and removing viruses:-) and 7 of them (about 150!) didn't work correctly. Now they do!! - Improved the file checker window. This works like the vector checker now, always trying to open a window as large as possible. Did some internal changes in the file checker for better performance (eg. improved path display). File checker now displays how many directories it has checked. - Did some minor updating in the bootblock lab. Changed the standard bootblock recognition routine, it will no longer be cheated by the Rene virus. - Added 'Requesters Follow Mouse' to the preferences. You can select the type of requester to use from ReqTools now. Enabled the return key feature for requesters, too. - Added some code for color swapping when running on Kick 1.3. My windows will look exactly like the ReqTools requesters now, thus giving you the chance to select some nice colors which fit with both types of windows. - Rewritten the sector checker for compatibility with the file checker window. Great, both windows are exactly the same, but the file checker has a path display and the sector checker a progress indicator. Window opens to full size, etc. - Removed the disabled 'Learn' gadget from the bootlab and added an 'Quit' gadget as a substitute for the close gadget. I decided NOT to add a brainfile feature because of the risk of being misused! Send me your bootblocks, I'm the expert, you are the user. - Added some code to heal files infected by "Menem's Revenge" and "Red October". What a shame I didn't notice that when I got them some time ago... - Sector checker now recognizes corruptions done by Sachsen 3, Glasnost and Nuked007 (Shit). I also changed the recognition code for Warsaw Avenger, Lamer Exterminator and Fast Eddie for 100% security. Changed the display mode of viruses and error messages to be more meaningful. The sector checker window will no longer flash up and then close again if you selected a drive where no disk is present. - Rewritten the device selector used by the sector checker. Looks like a little ReqTools requester now (except filling). Supports shortcuts now, the switch gadget supports backward scrolling while pressing . This window will always appear exactly in the middle of the screen. - Added new custom bootblocks: a) Human Target Loader by Melon Dezign b) Paradise Megademo Loader Bug fixes since 2.21 (this time only minor ones:-) - Some little fixes in the vector checker: a) If VirusZ found a RomTag that had a pointer to NULL in the name/id fields, it didn't print 'Unknown Module', but you only got the address with an empty name. b) If you had ResModules in RAM, the scrolling stopped on both mousebuttons, you couldn't continue. c) If the ResModules list didn't end with a NULL, but with a pointer to the next list, VirusZ didn't check this next list. d) If a library or a device had an entry in the ResMod list, but nevertheless was placed in the RAM area of your machine, all its vectors would have been reported as 'Please Check'. e) Forgot to allocate dynamic buffer for the display. If you used the vector checker on interlaced Workbench, it was likely to crash because of destroying some important memory areas. f) Changed memory type for buffer from Chip to Public. - While testing all the memory check routines, I found some little bugs. Some would have appreared only on OS 2.0, others only with Kick 1.3, but they are all fixed now. 2.21 BUG!! Argghh, why again??? I tested 2.20 for 3 days, all functions 100 times on all Kicks. Yesterday I sent off all the updates to my registered users, and today: crash on Kick 1.3!! I hate losing ExecBase on startup!! There's only one solution for this problem: I will no longer offer the update service for registered users. Everybody who wants to have the latest version will have to look around on the boards or on PD disks!! Changes/Additions since 2.20: - Added one new item to the preferences window. 'Test Hunks On Startup' let you select if you want the hunk structure of VirusZ to be tested or not. Useful in connection with most crunchers. - Added support code for overscan WB screens. The vector checker will open a window as high as possible now, always in the visible part of the screen. The prefs and bootlab windows have still a hardwired size, but they also appear in the visible part now. 2.20 Changes/Additions since 2.19c: - Added the bootblock lab and removed the 'Bootblocks' menu. Now you have a really nice intuitionized screen with all important bootblock functions on it. - Redesigned the main menu. As I removed the 'Bootblocks' items, I thought it would be best to integrate the 'Misc' menu in the 'VirusZ' menu. - Added two new viruses: The Infiltrator and D&A (SCA) filevirus. Both will be removed on disk and in memory. - Totally rewrote the vector checker. This is quite handy now and I don't see any more reasons why to change it again. There's nothing more to do than adding new patches to it. - Totally rewrote the preferences. These are really pro-looking and can be easily expanded. Some items have changed a bit. You disable the memory check by disabling an item now, you can no longer set the repeat delay to 0. - Added some custom bootblocks. - Tested this version excessively to prevent any more bugs as they appeared in 2.19 ;^) - New functions need a new documentation, so I changed most parts to fit with the new features. I also cut this history a little bit because it really wasn't too interesting what happened to VirusZ 10 month ago. - Added several OS 2.0 features like keyboard gadget activation or the waitpointer. Everything is simulated with Kick 1.3 means and is therefore available also on Kick 1.2/1.3!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Older versions killed ---> disk space :^) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.00 First release in September '91.