[comp.virus] F-PROT version 1.15 available

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.