[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] FPROT114.ZIP virus protection available from uwasa.fi

ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (01/21/91)

> From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
> Subject: F-PROT 1.14 uploaded
> To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 91 10:45:30 GMT
> 
> I just uploaded version 1.14 of my anti-virus program to your /incoming
> directory.
> 
> I include below the announcement I just posted to VIRUS-L/comp.virus
> 
> -frisk
> 
> Fridrik Skulason      University of Iceland  |       
> Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK)  |  Reserved for future expansion
> E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is    Fax: 354-1-28801  |   
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                		Announcing F-PROT 1.14
> 
> Version 1.14 added the following features:
> 
> 	Detection, but not removal of
> 
> 		Anthrax
> 		Crazy Eddie
>                 V2P6
> 
> 	The reason V2P6 is not removed is because of the complexity of
> 	the various encryption methods - If you ever get infected by the
> 	virus, I suggest you contact its author:
> 
> 			Mark Washburn
> 			4656 Polk Street NE
> 			Coloumbia Heights, MN 55421
> 			USA
> 
> 
> 	Detection and removal of the following viruses:
> 
>                 217
>                 417
>                 440
>                 492
>                 516
>                 600
>                 696
>                 699 (erronously called "711" elsewhere)
>                 707
>                 948
>                 1049
>                 1067
>                 1075
>                 1226
>                 1600
>                 2144
>                 2480
> 		Agiplan
>                 Alabama-B
> 		Amstrad-852
> 		AntiPascal
> 		AntiPascal 2
>                 Attention
>                 Bebe
> 		Best Wishes
>                 Black Monday
>                 Burger-537
>                 Carioca
>                 Christmas in Japan
>                 Cookie
>                 Datalock
>                 Destructor
>                 DIR
>                 Doteater
>                 Evil
>                 Father Christmas (Choinka)
> 		Groen Links
>                 Guppy
>                 Hymn
>                 Internal
>                 Invader
>                 Jerusalem-G
>                 Joker
>                 Joker-01
>                 Kemerovo
>                 Leprosy-B
>                 Liberty II
>                 Lozinsky
>                 MG
>                 MG-3
>                 MGTU
>                 MLTI
>                 Monxla/Time
>                 Musicbug
>                 Nina
>                 Nomenklatura
>                 Parity
>                 Phoenix
>                 Piter 
> 		Plastique (4 new variants)
>                 Polimer
>                 Proud 
>                 Saddam
>                 Scott's Valley
>                 Stone `90 (T@V) - a variant of Vienna
> 		Superhack (Scottish Murphy)
>                 SVC
> 		Sverdlov
>                 Tiny-family (11 different variants)
> 		Turbo-448
>                 Turbo Kukac
> 		Turku (Twins)
>                 V2P2
> 		VFSI (Happy)
>                 Vienna (several new variants)
> 		Violator
>                 Virdem-792
>                 Voronezh
> 		Westwood
>                 Wisconsin
> 		Zero Hunt (Minnow)
> 
> 	F-FCHK now does a much better job of detecting minor variants of
> 	viruses, in particular those cases where the differences are
> 	insignificant and do not matter with regard to disinfection. As
> 	an example, it will now identify the minor Jerusalem-variants
> 	(Payday, Mendoza, A-204, Puerto, Sunday, Anarkia, Westwood, B, C, G
> 	GrLkDos etc.) correctly, instead of just labeling them "Jerusalem".
> 
> 	The /LIST switch added to F-FCHK, to produce a report with a list
> 	of files scanned, and results.
> 
> 	The /MULTI switch added to F-FCHK and F-DISING to scan multiple
> 	diskettes.
> 
> 	The switches may be combined with other switches - for example
> 	you can use 
> 
> 		F-DISINF A: /MULTI /AUTO
> 
> 	if you have a large pile of infected diskettes or 
> 
> 		F-FCHK C: /AUTO /LIST > report.lis
> 
> 	to scan and disinfect the entire hard disk and produce a report.
> 
> 	The following bugs/problems have been fixed:	
> 
> 		The identification string for "Zero Bug" has been changed
> 		as it produced a false positive in LB.COM from Lahey and
> 		several other programs.
> 
> 		F-FCHK now reports the correct number of files disinfected,
> 		when files are infected with multiple viruses.
> 
> 		Occasional (but very rare) crashes of F-XLOCK and F-FCHK
> 		if F-LOCK was not installed.
> 
> 		Problems when removing "Stoned" from a hard disk formatted
> 		under some DOS versions earlier than 3.0
> 
> 		Occasional incorrect removal of Alabama.	
> 

Thanks Frisk. The file is now available as /pc/virus/fprot114.zip
from uwasa.fi.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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