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VirusZ Revision History !¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!| |!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡! © 1991,1992 Georg Hörmann !¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡| |¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!!¡| ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 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. 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!! 2.19c Additions since 2.19b: - Added MemCheck 5.0 custom bootblock (hi Ulf!). 2.19b Bug fix: - I really don't know what's the matter during these days... Again after releasing the last bugfixed version, people told me that the new version crashes again. I tested and tested and couldn't find any bugs. Then I switched off my 68030!!! And suddenly it really crashed! Odd address error! Well, I found it and removed it and I tested this version with really all available Kickstarts and Memory/Processor combinations and it worked fine. Hope to keep this standard in future... Changes/Additions since 2.19a: - Added the latest reqtools.libraries to the package. - Added some new custom bootblocks. - Changed the pause/abort feature in the file and block check. Any mousebutton brings up the same requester now where you can continue or abort checking. Nice idea by Holger Wessling. 2.19a Bug fix: - Oh no, that's the nightmare of every coder. I released a version of VirusZ with a major bug!!! As soon as you have anything resident (RAD:, etc.) in your memory, VirusZ 2.19 will crash faster than you can count to ten!! I forgot to save a tiny CPU register (sometimes I hate assembler). Sorry to all registered users out there who received VirusZ 2.19. Mega apologies for that. Next time I will test everything for a whole night!!! Changes/Additions since 2.19: - Added MMU recognition code to the vector check. - Added 2 new custom bootblocks. - Added 'Check New Disk' to prefs window. You can tell VirusZ not to check inserted disks now. Idea from a Danish user. Thanks! 2.19 Changes/Additions since 2.18: - Added several new file- and bootviruses. These are: Xeno 2, Installers for Disaster Master and Cheater Hijacker, NaST & Rob (both BGS9 clones), ChaosMaster 0.5, NoGuru, SysInfo, LZ, Golden Rider (old code had a bug), Installer of Challenger, BlizzPro 3.3, Perverse 1, The New Kid (SCA clone), Shit, VIPHS, ZAccess 3.0, ZEST. I think that's enough for this release... Thanks to Martin Odaischi for sending all these bastards 8^) - Added some custom bootblocks. - New file types now recognized by the file checker: AMOS sprites, banks and icons, IFF LIST files and Sonic Arranger song files. - Added again new viruses (this time from Erik Loevendahl Soerensen) Installer of Crime++ and Crime++ itself, Data Crime (CCCP clone), Dr. Mosh 1+2, DumDum, Exterminator 2 and Virus Fighter. - Changed the meaning of the 'Ignore Vectors' preference item a bit. In former releases this gadget, if enabled, only ignored vectors on startup. Now I changed the way of checking vectors. They will be checked every time the memory is checked for known viruses. Checked is posssibly the wrong expression, because they will checksummed and this sum will be compared to that counted at the last check. If nothing has changed, everything is fine. 'Ignore Vectors' will now cause VirusZ to skip this new feature. Thanks to Holger for this nice idea. 2.18 Changes/Additions since 2.17: - Added 5 new custom bootblocks and a new bootblock virus to the brains. Bug fixes since 2.17: - I had to rewrite the hunk manager since it seemed to go bananas when running on low memory. I did my best, but I didn't get the program 'Memory Manager' so far, so I couldn't test if the bug is gone now. Anyway I hope so. Thanks to Mike Kennedy for reporting this crazy bug and for the long phonecall from Canada. 2.17 Phew, it is done! After 6 days of excessive day and night work, I finally finished the brandnew VirusZ 2.17 release. The work of these 6 days alone is worth paying me the Shareware fee, so don't forget it... Changes/Additions since 2.16: - Totally removed the virusz.library. This nice idea always needed more memory than necessary and as I never updated the lib alone, it was absolutely unnecessary. And you don't have to copy so many files any longer :-)) - This release is something like 'back to the roots'. I removed the gadget from the main window and resized it to the dimensions of pre-2.12 releases. Several users told me to do this, hope you're satisfied now. - Added 'Not Bootable' option to the install window. - Added a call to DisplayBeep() to the play sound option. Now you will be optically and acustically warned if something suspicious happens. - Added security check to file and block check. If you try to abort checking with the right mousebutton, You will get a request first. It obviously is distressing if you have checked your harddisk for 5 minutes and press the right one accidentally. - Added automatic protection bit handling to the file checker. Now you can also check read-protected files. The original bits are reset after checking. - Added 'Skip Directories' option to the file checker (in the prefs window). This is especially useful for harddisk users who want to check the root directory of a 50 MB partition with appr. 3000 files in subdirs :-))) - Added both file and memory removal code for the 'Crime' virus. This virus made it necessary to change the way of checking files. Formerly I only read about 500 bytes/file, now I have to read the whole file to memory because this virus links itself to the end (!!) of the first hunk of a file. - Added support for 'decrunch.library', a totally new decrunch support lib written by ... ME !! This library will soon be available fully documented and with all necessary stuff to use it in your own programs (includes etc.). Since this lib has not been tested excessively due to lack of time, please don't hesitate to report bugs (if there are any). I tested it for several hours on all my crunched files, but one never knows... - File checker works recursively now, i.e. if you have a file that is 2 times crunched and 5 times virus infected, VirusZ will do all its work in one step, i.e. decrunch the file 2 times and remove 5 viruses. THAT'S GREAT !! I tested this on a file that was 8 times infected by IRQ-Team virus and it worked just fine. - Added new messages to the file checker. If a file is infected by a virus, you will get something like that now: The file '...' is infected with the '...' virus. Virus successfully removed. Old length: xxxx New length: xxxx Do you want to save the cleaned file? - And last but not least, as always, code cleanups 'en masse'. Bug fixes since 2.16: - VirusZ is now WB 2.1/LOCALE compatible. It happened that my nice trick in the Printf() routine crashed because of the new RawDoFmt() patch made by Locale. - I added a bug in 2.16 with adding the path display in the file checker. If you aborted while being in a subdirectory, VirusZ went crazy. - Little bug in the memory check routines. 'Little Sven' was detected as 'SCA' due to its wrong position. 2.16 Changes/Additions since 2.15: - Added a path display to the file checker so that you can see where you are on your harddisk. - Added the Challenger virus to the library. Thanx to Markus Schmall (SHI) for this little beast. - Added some nice bootblocks to the library as well. Bug fixes since 2.15: - The file checker displayed all IFF files as 'Unknown IFF' due to a buggy detection routine. Fixed... 2.15 Changes/Additions since 2.13 (yes, there was no 2.14:-) - Improved block checker. Wrong diagnostics are 99.9% impossible now thanks to some additional checks. Added Fast Eddie detection and reparation code for Cameleon (VirusZ is the first who can repair this!!). - Added about 30(!!) new viruses, some crunchers and tool boots. Thanks to Eric Loevendahl Soerensen for sending his collection. - Added memory removal code for all the new viruses. - VirusZ now also starts if it was corrupted. Warning message still comes up. - Did some 'fine tuning' (code cleanups). - This release is shareware (money makes the world go round). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Older versions killed ---> disk space ;^> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.00 First release in September '91. Keep smiley'ing and have fun... Georg :-))