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BootX v4.50 User's Manual 1 BootX v4.50 Copyright ⌐ 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Peter Stuer All rights reserved Release date May 7, 1992 FREEWARE User Manual KickStart 2.0 compatible COPYRIGHT NOTICE BootX software and documentation are ⌐ 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 by Peter Stuer. All rights reserved DISCLAIMER BootX has been thoroughly tested and is the result of a constant process of changes and updates that started in April 1989. The program has proven to be stable in everyday use. The author is not responsible for any loss of data, damages to software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from the use of this program. The author reserves the right to make changes to the software or documentation without notice. PREFACE This program is freeware, this means that you can copy it freely as long as you don't ask any more money for it than a nominal fee for copying. If you want to distribute this program you should keep this document with it. This program cannot be used for commercial purposes without written permission from the author. Special permission is hereby granted to include BootX in Public-Domain collections such as Fred Fish's Amiga Library. HOW TO GET THE LATEST VERSION OF BOOTX If you send me a 3╜" disk and a letter to get the most recent version of BootX, please don't forget to include enough stamps or money to send your disk back. BootX has been generating a lot of mail and most of the times I had to pay the postal fee myself to send the disk back. Remember, BootX itself is a FREEWARE so no money is expected for it (although I won't refuse it, grin...). And please, state your name and address clearly in print because sometimes they are nearly impossible to decipher. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 2 Every letter with a disk AND money will be answered AS SOON AS POSSIBLE... If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if you find any bugs, please let me know. If you find any new viruses or linkviruses that BootX does not recognize yet, please send them on a disk to me (my address follows this paragraph). I will return the disk to you with an updated copy of BootX. Write to the following address: Peter Stuer Kauwlei 21 B-2550 Kontich Belgium - Europe I will also try to put the latest available version of BootX on the following BBS (this may change without further notice): Great Balls Of Fire BBS Herman Stevens Lubbeek ADS Regional Coordinator Belgium Tel. +32-(0)16-64.09.12 2400 BPS N.8.1 24-24 h. Fido Node 2:292/603 A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS... Our motto: "Safe Hex..." BootX can be kept up to date thanks to the energy and work put into a global anti-virus information bank founded by Erik L°vendahl S°rensen from Denmark. This group has over 120 international members now, among them some of the programmers of wellknown anti-virus programs like Steve Tibbet and Jonathan Potter. Among the activities of this group are: - Spreading information to anti-virus programmers as fast as possible. - Trying to get names and proof against virus programmers and giving the information to the justice departement of his/her country to press charges. - Writing articles in popular magazines to inform new Amiga users about viruses and how to protect themselves. Also the organization is prepared to pay $ 1000 US for the BootX v4.50 User's Manual 3 name and the address of a virus programmer. All information will be delt with confidentially and will be handed over to the proper authorities of the virus programmer's country. All this is volunteer work. If you want some more information about this organization or you want to sponsor our work, contact Erik at the following address: SAFE HEX INTERNATIONAL Erik L°vendahl S°rensen Snaphanevej 10 DK-4720 Prµst° Denmark - Europe Phone: 00 45 55 99 25 12 Fax : 00 45 55 99 34 98 Fidonet 2:23424/43 In Erik's words: "We are an international group with more than 250 members who have started trying to stop the spread of viruses. Let me give you some examples: 1. Our motto is: "Safe Hex" 2. A virus bank containing all well known viruskiller programs. 3. We help people to get money back lost by virus infection 4. We write articles about viruses for 8 magazines. 5. We release the newest and the best viruskillers around. 6. We have more than 20 "Virus Centers" worldwide where you can get free virus help by phoning our "Hotline", and the newest killers translated in your own language at very little cost." THE AUTHOR Since so many people keep asking me about it... I graduated in June 1991 as a programmer-analyst and am currently working in a software firm. I use an Amiga A3000 25/100 with 6 Mbytes memory, 2 3╜" drives, 1 5╝" drive and a Supra2400 modem. BootX has been created using DevPac Assembler, WShell 2.0 and CygnusEd Professional. PACKAGE The BootX package consists of: BootX The program file BootX.BBLib The BootX bootblock library BootX.Brain An example of a brainfile BootX.Recog Recognition information BootX v4.50 User's Manual 4 BootX.doc This file BootX.history Complete history of BootX BootX.alarm An example of an alarm sample Note that the BootX.BBLib or the BootX.Brain files are not required to run the program. BootX will display an errormessage when either of these two files are not found. The BootX.Recog is required if you want to do any checking. REQUIREMENTS BootX v4.50 should run on any Amiga starting from the A500 all the way up to the A3000, any of these models with or without processor expansion boards. BootX has been tested with KickStart 1.3 and 2.0 on all three Amiga models except the Amiga 1000 (but there is no reason why it should not run on this model). Should you have any trouble running BootX on your machine, please write to me with the full specifications of your machine, that is KickStart version, model, expansion boards etc... When BootX detects the ReqTools library (by Nico Franτois) it will use it for its requesters. Make sure you have the correct version installed on your system. ReqTools is copyrighted 1991 by Nico Franτois. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 5 Chapter 1 Introducing BootX 1.1 Short introduction BootX v4.50 is an attempt to make the ultimate viruskiller. BootX v4.50 is fast (written completely in assembler), small and tries to be as user friendly as possible. Among the many features supported by BootX are: ╖ Configurable link and file virus check ╖ KickStart 2.0 look and feel (even with KickStart 1.2 & 1.3). ╖ BootX can scan your disks or hard-disk and generate a report of the file types and viruses found. The report can be saved to disk for later reviewing. ╖ Saveable settings. ╖ KickStart 2.0 SetPatch support. ╖ Loads bootblock libraries with several alternative bootblocks. ╖ Allows you to create your own brain files to recognize the bootblocks of your disks. ╖ Allows you to load and save bootblocks to disk as a protection against virus attacks. ╖ Audible alarm when a virus or unknown bootblock is found. ╖ AmigaDOS Release 2 (KickStart & Workbench 2.0) compatible and aware. ╖ PAL/NTSC/INTERLACE aware. ╖ Written completely in Assembler. 1.2 Installing BootX KickStart 1.3 users need to copy the 1.3 version of the ReqTools library to their LIBS: directory. For KickStart 2.0 users this is optional but it will make the usage of BootX more comfortable. To run, BootX only requires the BootX executable. BUT: If you want to install different bootblocks, BootX needs the BootX.BBLib file. If you want to check for viruses of any kind, the BootX. Recog file is needed which contains the identifaction patterns BootX uses. The BootX.Brain file is simply included as an example. It is advisable you create your own brainfile, should you encounter a BootX v4.50 User's Manual 6 bootblock that BootX does not yet recognize. If the bootblock is added to the Recog file later, BootX will use that information. When BootX finds a file called 'BootX.alarm' in the directory from which it started, and this file is a FORM 8SVX sound sample, BootX will play this sample every time an unknown bootblock or a boot-, file or linkvirus is detected. The FORM 8SVX file format is the standard Amiga file format for audio samples. All the major sound digitizers or editing programs use this file format. BootX will use the settings it finds in the file to play the sample. Also, when start BootX for the first time, there will be no BootX.Prefs file in your S: directory. Use the Save Settings menu item when you first start BootX to create one (read on). Chapter 2 How to start BootX BootX v4.50 (from here on referred to as BootX) was written to be used by both beginners and experienced users. BootX can be started both from CLI and the Workbench. 2.1 Starting BootX from the CLI To start BootX from the CLI simply type: 1> BootX followed by a return. This loads the BootX program and starts it. BootX then detaches itself from the CLI. This means that you can start BootX without using the run command, bring the Workbench screen back to the front and then close the CLI window with the EndCLI command. NOTE: BootX tries to load the BootX.BBLib, BootX.Brain and BootX.Recog files from the current directory. If your current directory is not the same as the one BootX is in, change to it with the CLI command CD: 1> cd <BootX directory> 2.2 Starting BootX from the WorkBench This is the easy part. Simply click on the accompaning icon and BootX starts. NOTE: Workbench 2.0 users can also use the Execute Command item from the Workbench menu to run BootX. Chapter 3 How to use BootX: a guided A lot of viruscheckers and viruskillers have already written BootX v4.50 User's Manual 7 for the Amiga but none of them offered all the features I needed. Hence the various disks offering several different programs for doing the job. Enters BootX. BootX can check the bootblock of a disk, check memory for any resident viruses and scan a disk for link and fileviruses. It can load bootblock libraries with bootblocks for you to write on your disks as an alternative for the boring DOS Install bootblock. It can load "brain files" so you can add any new bootblocks that BootX does not recognise yet. Let's start a guided tour of the screen. The main screen offers several gadgets and menus. Just click the appropriate gadget or select a menu item to perform an action. 3.1 Quit Does just what the gadget says: it releases all used memory and quits the program. Before BootX quits it will check to see if you have made any changes to the brain file. If so, it will ask you first if you want to save the changes you have made. NOTE: Watch out that you don't leave any infected disks in your drives when you quit BootX ! Especially disks that are infected with disk-validator viruses. 3.2 Read BB This gadget explicitly instructs BootX to read the bootblock from the current selected drive into the buffer. Normally BootX detects when a new disk is inserted and automatically reads its bootblock. But some old 5╝ drives don't support this automatic diskchange. This gadget can also be used to read the bootblock after another program has modified the bootblock. You will also need to use this gadget when you have turned of the auto-diskchange detection or when you have locked a drive (see further). 3.3 Write BB Here you instruct BootX to write the bootblock currently in the buffer to the selected drive. BootX maintains a buffer that holds the last read bootblock. This buffer is also visible in the large display window in semi-ASCII form (more about this later). The buffer allows you to read a bootblock from one disk and then copy it to another. 3.4 The 4 drive gadgets BootX v4.50 User's Manual 8 You can connect 4 disk drives to the Amiga. BootX checks how many drives are connected to the Amiga and installs a gadget for every one of them. When a drive is not found its radiobutton will be ghosted. Note that although a drive is connected the Amiga will not recognize its presence when it is turned off (only applicable for external drives). 3.5 Lock Drive Normally when you insert a disk in the disk-drive, the Amiga tries to see if the checksum of the disk is OK. When it is not, the Amiga tries to validate it. Pre-2.0 KickStarts need to load and execute a program called Disk-Validator from the L directory to check and/or repair the checksum. When a disk-drive is 'locked', BootX will prevent AmigaDOS from validating your disk. This also means that Disk-Validator viruses have no chance of getting in. You can insert and remove disks as many times as you like. Also the automatic diskchange detect will be temporarily disabled. 3.6 Install Here you can write the selected built-in bootblock to the bootblock of the current drive. When no bootblock library is loaded only the normal AmigaDOS Install v1.3 bootblock is available. At startup BootX looks for a file called "BootX.BBLib" in the directory from which BootX started. It contains several alternative bootblocks. It is possible to load another bootblock library using the "Load bootblock library" menuitem (see further). 3.7 Next and Previous (< and >) These gadgets show the next or the previous bootblocks in the currently loaded bootblock library. If no library is loaded, only the normal AmigaDOS Install 1.3 bootblock will be available. Among the bootblocks are the normal DOS bootblock, Ralph Babel's Install2 and several others. Thanks to all groups and programmers whose bootblock I included. Note however that when you press Next and Previous the bootblock buffer is not updated. 3.8 Built-in bootblock name BootX v4.50 User's Manual 9 This window shows the name of the selected built-in bootblock. 3.9 Message window This window reports messages and errors resulting from the various operations. 3.10 Main display window Shows the bootblock that is currently in the buffer in semi-ASCII representation. Only the readable characters are shown. This allows you to check for readable text signifying the nature of the bootblock when BootX reports "Unknown bootblock". The main display window is also used for the output of several other BootX functions. Chapter 4 The BootX Project Menu items 4.1 Load Bootblock library Selecting this menuitem (or the key combination Right-Amiga-B) allows you to load another bootblock library than the default BootX.BBLib. BootX will only load valid bootblock libraries. 4.2 Load Recog file As of BootX v4.30 all the recognition information BootX needs to identify a virus or a bootblock is contained in a file called BootX.Recog. Here you can load different BootX.Recog files than the one BootX loads at started called "BootX.Recog". NOTE: The BootX.Recog files are coded and protected by a checksum to prevent anyone from modifying the information it contains with a file editor. Always try to get the latest version of the BootX.Recog file to get maximum protection. You can find out the version of a BootX.Recog file in several ways: 1. After BootX has succesfully loaded a recog file it will display the version and the release date of the file. 2. Select the About menu item. The text will show the version and the release date of the recog file and how many bootblocks, bootviruses and fileviruses it knows. NOTE: these numbers may vary from the number reported by the "Show known xxx" menu items. The numbers reported here BootX v4.50 User's Manual 10 are the number of recog blocks that BootX can use to identify a virus. The "Show known xxx" menu items only report all the different names that BootX uses, f.e. BootX can recognize several different mutants of the same virus but the name will only show up once in the the "Show known bootviruses" list. 3. Use the Workbench 2.x version command: 1> version BootX.Recog 4.3 Clear Brainfile Removes a brain file from memory (see further). 4.4 Load Brainfile Selecting this menuitem (or the key combination Right-Amiga-L) allows you to load another brainfile than the default BootX.Brain. BootX will load only valid brainfiles. Before loading it asks you if you want this brainfile to replace the one in memory. 4.5 Save Brainfile Selecting this menuitem (or the key combination Right-Amiga-S) allows you to save the brainfile that is currently in memory. If you forget to save the brainfile before you try to quit BootX, the program will warn you if the brainfile has been changed. You will then get another chance to save the brainfile. 4.6 View Brainfile This menuitem allows you to view all the entries that are in the brainfile that is in memory. 4.7 Merge Brainfile Sometimes it happens that two BootX users have different entries in their brainfiles. This menuitem allows you to merge any brainfile with the one in memory. BootX will only add an entry that is not yet present. Don't forget to save the new brainfile to disk. 4.8 Show known bootblocks This menuitem will produce a list of all the bootblocks and bootblock viruskillers BootX knows. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 11 4.9 Show known bootviruses This menuitem will produce a list of all the bootviruses BootX knows. 4.10 Show known fileviruses This menuitem will produce a list of all the file- and linkviruses BootX knows. 4.11 Goto sleep Closes the main BootX screen and releases as much memory as possible. A small window on the workbench screen will be opened showing you that BootX is still in memory. In this state BootX uses no CPU time and just waits for you to make the window active and click in it with the menu button (the right mouse button). Then the main BootX screen and window is opened again and you can go on again. BootX does not unload a brain file or a bootblock library. Also, when asleep, BootX doesn't do any checking (like VirusX does). I did this on purpose. There is no need to continuously keep checking every disk that is inserted. Just check them once to make sure they are virus-free. 4.12 About Displays information about BootX and the version number. Always try to get the latest version available to have optimum virus protection. You can also find out which version of the BootX.Recog you are using and how many viruses and bootblocks it knows. 4.13 Quit Guess what this one does... Chapter 5 The BootX Bootblock Menu items 5.1 Load/Save BootX can save the bootblock in the buffer to any valid drive. 'Save' can be used to save the bootblocks of games, mega demos and other programs to a separate data disk. In case of a virus attack or a bad disk you can load the BootX v4.50 User's Manual 12 previously saved bootblock back in the buffer and write it back to the original disk. 'Load' will only allow you to load a file that contains a valid bootblock. It checks if it is an Old or Fast File System bootblock and then recalculates the checksum of the bootblock. When the bootblock checksum is wrong, BootX will ask you if you want to repair it. If you select Yes, BootX repairs the bootblock checksum of the loaded copy. 5.2 Learn This menu item prompts you for a name when BootX does not known the bootblock in the buffer yet. Enter an empty string when you want to cancel the operation. BootX then adds the bootblock to the current brain file (if present). Otherwise it makes a brain file in memory. Chapter 6 The BootX Files Menu items 6.1 Check Files Selecting this menu item pops up a requester allowing you to set your preferences for the file- and linkvirus check. To close the requester, click the CloseWindow gadget. 6.2 Check Files Options 6.2.1 Skip Directories When this option is on BootX will skip any subdirectories it encounters during a scan. This option allows you to make a quick scan of the root of a disk or hard-disk. 6.2.2 Check crunched executables When this option is enabled, BootX tries to decrunch all crunched executables in memory and then checks the file for viruses. Note that this will slow down a file check considerabely. Recognized crunchers: PowerPacker 3.0 PowerPacker 4.0 TNM Cruncher 1.1 6.2.3 Enter interactively When this option is active BootX asks if it should enter a directory everytime it encounters one. This is handy for scanning hard-disks with lots of directories. A requester pops BootX v4.50 User's Manual 13 up giving you the option to enter the directory (select the Yes gadget) or skip this directory (select the No gadget). 6.2.4 Auto-remove read-protection AmigaDOS 2.0 recognizes and honours the protection bits of a file. That means that if the read protection is on, programs are not allowed to read that file. When BootX encounters such a file it will ask you if you want to remove the read protection of the file. If you select Yes BootX retains all previous protection bits with exception of the read protection bit. Read protection will be turned off and the file will be re-checked. If you wish to restore the read protection afterwards, use the AmigaDOS command Protect like this: 1> protect <filename> -r which will give the file its read protection back. If you select this option, the Auto-skip option will be turned off. See further. 6.2.5 Auto-skip read-protected files It happens sometimes that you want to protect some files on your disks or hard-disk from reading by removing the read protection bit. When this option is selected, BootX will ignore all read protected files. It will count them though. If you select this gadget, the Auto-remove option will be turned off. See higher. 6.2.6 Handle viruses automatically When BootX encounters a virus it will ask you if it should use any of the three mark methods you specified. Select this option when you want BootX to handle all viruses automatically when it encounters them. HINT: These last two options are especially handy when checking hard-disks with a lot of files on them. 6.2.7 Virus Mark options You can choose any of the three mark options that specify what BootX should do with a virus. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 14 You can add a filenote to the file, delete the file or rename the file. When BootX renames the file it will use a name that is composed of the virus name and a special counter that ensures that all virus names are unique. The filenote or comment that BootX adds to the file specifies the name of the virus and which version of BootX detected it. This comment can be seen when you use the 'List' command in the CLI or the Shell to list the files of a directory. 6.2.8 Report features These options allow you to generate a report of your disk or hard-disk. At the end of the virus check will BootX ask you what to do with the report. You can either take a look at it or save it to disk. Normally BootX only reports files that are infected or have errors in them. When you turn on the Report File types option BootX will add every file it encounters to the report together with its file type. 6.2.9 Check files This gadget pops up the file requester for you to specify a device to search for file- and linkviruses. You can select any AmigaDOS device that supports a file system. You can also specify a particular directory to check. When you select OK BootX starts searching for viruses in any file it encounters according to the preferences you specified. During the file check you can press the right mousebutton to pause. Press the left mousebutton to stop the file check. When BootX finds a virus it will bring the BootX screen to the front and, depending on the state of the Audible Alarm flag, will play the sample found in the file 'BootX.alarm' or beep the 'display'. 6.3 Show report again This menu item allows you to see the last generated report again. 6.4 Save report This menu item allows you to save the last generated report to disk. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 15 6.5 Check Disk When you select this menu item, BootX will put up a requester that allows you to specify which actions BootX should perform when performing a complete disk check. Check bootblock: checks the bootblock Check tracks : performs the Repair Disk action Check files : performs the Check Files action All these actions will be performed on the disk in the drive currently selected. 6.6 Repair Disk Currently this menu item allows you to repair the damage done by the Saddam disk-validator virus. This virus will corrupt the bitmap of a disk and encode the data blocks on a disk. As long as the virus is in memory, these blocks get decoded invisibly every time they are accessed. This way you don't notice there is anything wrong. But when you use that disk on an uninfected Amiga, these block will be unusable. Repair Disk scans a disk and tries to repair the damage. Make sure there is no virus in memory (especially not the Saddam virus). BootX will do a memory scan just to be safe and removes the virus if it is found. BootX then locks the current drive (make a different drive current using the 4 drive gadgets, see higher) and asks you to insert the corrupted disk. During the scan you'll get a progress report. You can leave the write-protection of your disk on to scan a disk without making modifications. 6.7. How BootX handles link- and fileviruses... When you ask BootX to check the files of a disk or a directory, BootX starts scanning and checking every file it encounters. When it finds a read-protected file, BootX will ask you if you wish to remove the read-protection from that file. If you select the No gadget, BootX will leave the file as it is. This file will NOT be checked. In case you select the Yes gadget BootX will try to remove the read-protection. The file is then checked to see if it contains a virus. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 16 Whether or not you mark an infected file or not, BootX will set the protection flags of the file to ---A---D which means that the file can only be deleted. The Archive flag makes sure that this file will not be included in a backup of that directory. 6.8. How to kill disk-validator viruses... First make sure that your memory is clear of any virus. You can do this by turning of your Amiga for a few seconds and then booting from a NON-INFECTED disk. Always make sure all the disks you insert are WRITE-PROTECTED unless it contains a disk-validator virus you want to kill. Start BootX and lock the current drive by clicking on the Lock gadget in the upper right corner of the BootX screen. This prevents AmigaDOS and the Workbench from accessing the disks you are about to insert. Insert the infected disk into the current drive and click on Read. BootX now reads the bootblock and checks the file called "disk-validator". This file can be found in the L drawer of the disk. If BootX does not check the disk-validator, make sure that the "Check Disk-Validator" preference item is selected in the "Settings" menu. When BootX finds a disk-validator virus, it will ask you if it should kill the virus. If you select Yes, BootX destroys the complete virus code and makes a harmless executable program of it that does nothing than set the dos errorcode to -1. Next you are given the advice to repair the disk using the "Repair Disk" menu item. As a last step you need to copy an UNINFECTED disk-validator file into the L drawer of the repaired disk. This step could not be automated because the Disk-Validator file is copyrigthed by Commodore Amiga. Chapter 7 The BootX Miscellaneous Menu items 7.1 Check Memory Checks the memory for any known virus ignoring all known resident virus checkers. When BootX finds a virus it will display an Alert identifying which virus was in memory and will try to kill it. BootX also removes any known linkvirus from memory. After the memory check, BootX will show you some important vectors from Execbase in the main display window. These vectors are mostly altered by viruses. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 17 Next the resources, libraries and devices are scanned to see if any of their vectors have been changed. A normal vector will be display in black. When BootX thinks that something is not normal it will display a message in white next to the vector saying 'Please check...'. Note that this not necessarily means that there is a virus in memory. Resident programs as f.i. TurboPrint use these vectors too. I will try to keep BootX's knowledge base as up to date as possible. In case of doubt, save all data and cold-start the Amiga, that is, turn of the power and wait a few seconds before turning it on again. This display generates a lot of technical information. If you are a beginning Amiga user and BootX reports that some of the vectors have been changed and it does not know which program, please contact a more experienced Amiga user (preferably a programmer). 7.2 Reset vectors This menu item gives you the option to clear the first five vector that BootX shows in its vector list. This is not a fail safe way to kill a virus. Also if any other software is using these vectors, it will not survive the next reset. 7.3 Install resident LVD LVD is a small program I wrote that patches the main entry point of the Amiga operating system that is used for loading executable programs. Once installed, LVD uses no CPU time until you try to load an executable program. Before this program gets a chance to run, LVD checks if there is a known linkviruses attached to it. If there is the code of the program gets changed and the program will not get started. This prevents the virus from becoming activated. But when you already have a virus in memory, every program you load can be infected, every disk access can be fatal. This menu option install a Resident version of LVD with any disk access. First make sure you select Check Memory and Reset vectors to try to kill the virus. Then install the resident LVD. When you reset, LVD survives the reset and patches the entry point. Now if there is a virus infected program in your startup-sequence, LVD will intercept it before it gets a chance to run. NOTE: LVD installs itself at the END of the KickTag chain. That way if any other program is using the KickTag vector it will remain active. BootX v4.50 User's Manual 18 Chapter 8 The BootX Settings Menu items 8.1 Detection diskchange This menu item works as an on/off switch. It turns the diskchange detection on or off. Sometimes it is not useful to have BootX read the bootblock of every disk you insert, especially when you have a bootblock in the buffer you wish to write to another disk. This gadget allows one drive user to copy bootblocks. 8.2 Show Help This menu item toggles the help feature on or off. When it is turned on you can click any gadget or select any menuitem to get a short help message about its function. Select the Show Help item again to turn off the help feature. 8.3 Pause after page This option controls if the text display will by shown page by page. This feature will be temporarily disabled when you start a file check. 8.4 Check Memory at startup When this option is selected BootX will perform a full memory check every time it is started or when it wakes up after being put to sleep. 8.5 Check Disk-Validator When you insert a disk into the current drive BootX will first try to identify the bootblock. When this option is on, it will check the disk-validator also when it is on the disk. This way disk-validator viruses can be identified before they get into the system. NOTE: this option is especially effective when the current drive is locked ! 8.6 Audible alarm If this menu item is checked BootX will sound an audible alarm using the sample found in the file 'BootX.alarm' every time an unknown bootblock or a boot-, file- or linkvirus is found. 8.7 Set Colors BootX v4.50 User's Manual 19 When BootX is able to open the ReqTools library, you can change the BootX screen colors using the palette requester. The colors will be saved in your BootX.Prefs file. 8.8 Load/Save settings These items allow you to load and save your prefered settings of BootX. Save settings uses the default name S:BootX.Prefs. 8.9 Save settings as This is essentially the same as Save settings exept that you can specify the name of the settings file. Table Of Contents BootX v4.50 Chapter 1 Introducing BootX ............................ 5 1.1 Short introduction ............................. 5 1.2 Installing BootX ............................... 5 Chapter 2 How to start BootX ............................. 6 2.1 Starting BootX from the CLI ....................... 6 2.2 Starting BootX from the WorkBench ................. 6 Chapter 3 How to use BootX: a guided....................... 6 3.1 Quit .......................................... 7 3.2 Read BB ........................................ 7 3.3 Write BB ....................................... 7 3.4 The 4 drive gadgets .............................. 7 3.5 Lock Drive ..................................... 8 3.6 Install ....................................... 8 3.7 Next and Previous (< and >) ........................ 8 3.8 Built-in bootblock name ......................... 8 3.9 Message window ................................. 9 3.10 Main display window ............................ 9 Chapter 4 The BootX Project Menu items .................... 9 4.1 Load Bootblock library .......................... 9 4.2 Load Recog file ................................. 9 4.3 Clear Brainfile ................................ 10 4.4 Load Brainfile ................................. 10 4.5 Save Brainfile ................................. 10 4.6 View Brainfile ................................. 10 4.7 Merge Brainfile ................................ 10 4.8 Show known bootblocks ........................... 10 4.9 Show known bootviruses .......................... 11 4.10 Show known fileviruses ......................... 11 4.11 Goto sleep .................................... 11 4.12 About ........................................ 11 4.13 Quit ......................................... 11 Chapter 5 The BootX Bootblock Menu items .................. 11 5.1 Load/Save ..................................... 11 5.2 Learn ......................................... 12 Chapter 6 The BootX Files Menu items ...................... 12 6.1 Check Files .................................... 12 6.2 Check Files Options ............................. 12 6.2.1 Skip Directories .......................... 12 6.2.2 Check crunched executables ................. 12 6.2.3 Enter interactively ....................... 12 6.2.4 Auto-remove read-protection ............... 13 6.2.5 Auto-skip read-protected files ............. 13 6.2.6 Handle viruses automatically ............... 13 6.2.7 Virus Mark options ......................... 13 6.2.8 Report features ........................... 14 6.2.9 Check files ............................... 14 6.3 Show report again ............................... 14 6.4 Save report .................................... 14 6.5 Check Disk ..................................... 15 6.6 Repair Disk .................................... 15 6.7. How BootX handles link- and fileviruses... ........ 15 6.8. How to kill disk-validator viruses... ............ 16 Chapter 7 The BootX Miscellaneous Menu items .............. 16 7.1 Check Memory ................................... 16 7.2 Reset vectors .................................. 17 7.3 Install resident LVD ............................ 17 Chapter 8 The BootX Settings Menu items ................... 18 8.1 Detection diskchange ........................... 18 8.2 Show Help ...................................... 18 8.3 Pause after page ................................ 18 8.4 Check Memory at startup .......................... 18 8.5 Check Disk-Validator ........................... 18 8.6 Audible alarm .................................. 18 8.7 Set Colors ..................................... 18 8.8 Load/Save settings ............................. 19 8.9 Save settings as ................................ 19 ⌐ 1992 BootX v4.50 written by Peter Stuer Thanks to Nico Franτois & Johan Van Houtven for the ▀eta-testing and all the useful suggestions. Thanks to Bart Beeckmans for redesigning the icon. _ // Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !