NOTE: This is not a release version! 2do: Add Beol4 add: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/ VIRUS HELP TEAM DENMARK (is available there, too) Short: Mem viruskiller for the new Packetviruses Uploader: gzenz@ixc.net (Gideon Zenz) Author: gzenz@ixc.net (Gideon Zenz) Type: util/virus PURPOSE As probably some of you know, a crazy guy postet the source of a really dangerous stealth-virus (Beol3) to the usenet. I decided to debug this piece in order to protect myself from it, as the danger of clones with destructive routines seemed to be pretty high. When testing it, I had to make sure not to infect myself, and to clean the memory from the virus when I finished. So AntiBeol was born, in order to clean the memory from all viruses working like this one. I got in contact with Markus Schmall (Virus Workshop) so I could maybe help him a bit, and he encouraged me to improve AntiBeol, as other peoples might find such a tool handy. He sent me some more viri, so it`s now able to detect and clear the most important one. The difference to probably the most viruskillers is that this one doesn`t only notify you when it encounters a known virus, but also if it detects some abnormal changes, so it can (hopefully) detect new viri. All in all, it doesn`t replace a good background checker like VirusZ is, but it gives you additionally help on this comming-up packetviri. USAGE It`s pretty easy to use. Just put it somewhere in your User-Startup with a run, e.g.: Run <>NIL: C:AntiBeol You won`t notice anything on normal work, but if it detects something, a reqtools requester will pop up and inform you about it. The following viri are detected untill now: Beol 3, Beol 2, Beol 96, and SMEG. But you can get another ones, which are: Dospacket virus and Volumelauncher virus. NOTE: These ones mean that AntiBeol found a program that used some techniques NORMALY only viri (like the above mentioned) use. It DOESN`T need to be a virus, but it can be. Programs like ArcHandler or DiskExpaner can cause such things, in this case just press "Leave It" and it won`t be touched. So IF you start a program you 100% KNOW about it`s virus-free (and it crashes), please mail me, and try using the NOSTRICT option. TECHNICAL This paragraph is for advanced users only, so don`t get mad because you don`t understand a word :) So how does this thingie work? Basically quite easy: Every five seconds, it checks some vectors of the system (pr_WaitPkt of all Volumes, Processes, and TC_LAUNCH of every task), as they`re used by the above mentioned viruses. If such a virus is detected, or some other program is found there (these vectors are normaly not used by any program I could find) they`ll get cleared, the suspicious piece of code get`s disabled and you`ll get notified. For the curious ones: AntiBeol also changes it`s name randomly every 5 seks, so don`t get a heart attack if you see a process like "CLI(15):r7a9wOeci". This will prevent the FindTask("SnoopDos")-trick. So what do these "future-viri" requesters mean? Dospacket means that someone hooked up in pr_WaitPkt, either in the Processes or in the Volumes, and Volumelauncher means someone hooked up in the TC_LAUNCH field of the Volumes` tasks. As additionaly help you get the address of the suspicious vector. This is a pointer to the dos structure, e.g. pr_WaitPkt. LAST WORDS I really do have to thank Markus Schmall for his help and providing of viri! Without him I wouldn`t even have thought about releasing this program! HISTORY v1.0 (24-Sep-96) - initial release v1.1 (17-Oct-96) - Now works on 68000 machines (thx to Danny Lade) - Recognizes DiskExpander (thx to Martin Imlau) - Finally works with ArcHandler under every condition - Improved the warning requester, shows memory and you can decide wether to kill or not to kill the suspicious code. v1.2 (27-Nov-96) - Recognizes FSDirs (thx to Dave Jones) - Removed enforcerhits, which caused an A3000 to stall every 5 secs (thx to Nils Goers) v1.21 (10-Mar-97) - Recognizes VincEd (thx to Nils Goers) - Added new email address! v1.3 (25-Mar-97) - Recognizes VMM (thx to Dave Jones) - The warning requester will now pop up only one time instead of every 5 secs. v1.32 (6-Sep-97) - Recognizes VincEd 3.52 (thx to Nils Goers) - Doesn`t disturb serial transfers anymore (thx to Gary Gagnon) - BUGFIX: Recognizes again Beol3 and Beol96. Sorry for this! v1.33a (13-Sep-97) - Recognizes HitchHicker 4.32 - Added "DisableHH423", a tiny tool which desinfects files Sorry, virus only gets disabled, not removed. DISCLAIMER This software is subject to the "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note" It is Freeware as defined in paragraph 4a. For more information please read "AFD-COPYRIGHT" (Version 1 or higher). AUTHOR If you have some comments, please don`t hesitate to contact me! Gideon Zenz Giersbergstr. 41 53229 Bonn GERMANY EMail: gzenz@ixc.net -Gideon Zenz, 6-Sep-97 SECURITY If you want to be shure you have the original programs, check with "md5sum -c AntiBeol.readme". (md5sum is part of the PGP package), and of cause check the integrity of this readme with PGP!