frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (04/16/91)
Version 1.15 of the F-PROT anti-virus package is now available. There are no major changes from version 1.14 - you have to wait for 2.0 to see all the new features. I have uploaded the program to beach.gal.utexas.edu, but several other FTP sites will probably have the package in a couple of days or so. Version 1.15 added the following features: Detection, but not disinfection of Akuku Doom2 Mardi Bros Microbes MIX2 Ontario Spyer Swedish disaster USSR-1594 X-boot Detection and removal of 10 past 3 1575 1600 (Jerusalem variant) 403 4th Black Friday (Jerusalem variant) Aircop AntiCAD/Plastique-2576 AntiCAD/Plastique-3004 (COBOL) Azusa Burger-382 Cascade 1701-YAP Christmas Violator Dark Lord (variant of Terror) Deicide Dutch-555 Enigma Fichv 2.1 Flip/Omicron-2153 The 4th Black Friday (Jerusalem variant) Frere-2 (Jerusalem variant) G-Virus, version 1.3 (731) Gergana Grither (Vienna variant) HIV Hybryd Iraqui Warrior (Vienna variant) Jeff (impossible to disinfect) June 4th (Stoned variant) Klaeren (impossible to disinfect) Kylie (Jerusalem variant) Leprosy-A Leszop (Stoned variant) Magnitogorsk Michelangelo (Stoned variant) Micro-128 Minimal-45 Mirror MG-4 Monxla-B Paris Phantom Plague Rostov (Stoned variant) September 18th-789 (first reported as "805") September 18th-801 (first reported as "817") Sexual revolution (Stoned variant) South African-408 Spanish Telecom (boot-form) Staf SVC 3.1 Taiwan-C (752 byte variant) Taiwan-D (677 byte variant) Testvirus B Vienna VHP-622 from Bulgaria Vienna 822 from Hungary Wolfman Removal of the following viruses, which were detected in 1.14 905 Lovechild Terror Vienna-644 The "405" and "382" viruses have now been reclassified as Burger-variants. The names of some viruses have been changed, in most cases because the viruses had only a temporary, numeric name. 1600 --> Happy New Year 417 --> F-word Perfume --> G-Virus /NOBOOT switch added to F-DRIVER to disable memory check at boot time. Should only be used on computers with Network Boot ROMs, where the standard F-DRIVER has caused problems. /QUICK switch added to F-FCHK. Using it results in faster scanning, but reduces the chances of detecting previously unknown variants of "old" viruses. /DELETE switch added to F-FCHK. If it is used, infected files will be overwritten several times and then deleted. The F-INOC and F-DIR programs are not included any more, as they were practically useless. F-FCHK will now indicate if a program has been compressed by DIET, LZEXE or PKLITE. The programs will not be scanned - that will be added in a later version. A small program (F-TEST) has been added to determine if F-DRIVER is installed and working properly. See USAGE.TXT for further information. The following bugs/problems have been fixed: F-DISINF /MULTI did not work under all circumstances. Conflicts between F-DRIVER and PC-NFS have been eliminated. Version 1.14 was not able to remove all variants of Jerusalem, including some which 1.13 handled successfully. This has been fixed.