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- If you are new to VirusX, please hunt down "VirusX_4.0.LZH", the last full
- release of VirusX. It includes a program to seek out and remove link
- viruses from your hard disk, and the full documentation and source to
- VirusX. You should be able to find it wherever you found this version - if
- not, ask for it.
-
- VirusX 4.01 is a small update from VirusX 4.00 - I've made a lot of changes
- to the program, but there is only one visible change - and it's actually
- an invisible change.
-
- VirusX no longer has to open a window. The new "-N" option will cause
- VirusX to run in the background and do all that it usually does, without
- opening a window.
-
- "But how do I look at disk boot blocks, then?" you ask? Even if you didn't
- ask, here's how to do it - you just run VirusX again. VirusX will notice
- that it's already running, and ask if you want the other copy to quit, open
- its window, or if you want to just cancel the whole operation (leave the
- other copy running, and quit this new copy).
-
- You cannot have two copies of VirusX running - but why would you want to
- anyway?
-
- I fixed a few bugs from V4.00, mainly the read-from-location-zero bug that
- caused VirusX to crash on machines with 2091 hard disk controllers, among
- other things.
-
- This version of VirusX is fully compatible with AmigaDOS 2.0, and will take
- advantage of its improved Intuition in simple places (ie, moving the
- VirusX window around), where approporiate. This does not affect how VirusX
- behaves under 1.3 and earlier versions.
-
- This version of VirusX is being released WITHOUT the source code. This is
- because the current source has requires the AmigaDOS 2.0 includes to
- compile, and these are not currently available to the general public. I am
- also not including the documentation or KV in the release archive, simply
- because none of these things have changed. The next full release of VirusX
- will have all these items, and if you are the picky sort, you can ignore
- this version until the next full release.
-
- V4.01 checks for no new viruses. I do have a number of new viruses to add,
- but haven't had time to do it, and a bug fix release is long overdue.
-
- Staying current with VirusX isn't as easy as it sounds. There are
- currently two known "Bogus" versions of VirusX - Virusx 4.4, and VirusX
- 5.0. Neither of these are my product. The only way to be sure of the
- latest version is either to call my BBS, Plink, Bix, or Me (in that
- order!). If you are going to distribute VirusX to others, ie, on a
- disk-of-the-month or on a disk magazine, please make sure you have the
- current version.
-
- If you wish to get ahold of me for any reason, the best way is via modem.
- I'm an assitant chairman of the AmigaZone on People/Link, known there as
- STEVEX. I'm also on Bix, known as "s.tibbett". If you aren't on one of
- those services, then you can call my BBS at 613-731-3419. If you really
- need to speak to me, call me in the evening at 613-731-5316. Writing to me
- is not a good idea, as I don't normally respond to mail (though I do read
- everything I get).
-
- I'm also changing the status of VirusX slightly. VirusX is no longer
- "Public Domain", but is instead now classed as "Freely Redistrutable,
- Copyright 1990 Steve Tibbett". You are free to distribute VirusX as a part
- of any collection that is being sold for the cost of duplication and
- distribution, providing that you verify with me the status of the version
- you plan to distribute. (If you just downloaded it from Plink or from my
- BBS, then don't bother). Online distribution in any form is okay. Any
- other distribution (specifically disk magazines) should contact me. (I
- don't like legal stuff, but I like the idea of a version of VirusX that can
- do damage to people's systems being distributed even less, hence this
- paragraph).
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE:
-
- If you have had VirusX complain about the CoolCapture vector when you run
- it, and you are using either AmigaDOS 2.0 or SetPatch r (the r option on
- SetPatch - check your startup sequence), then that is the cause of it. If
- you run VirusX with the "-r" option, then it will not complain about this.
- (It will actually not complain about ANY unknown coolcapture vectors above
- $80000, but this does not affect its detection of all known viruses, even
- if they are up there).
-
- On SOME systems in some configurations, I'm really not sure what,
- VirusX will complain about the SetPatch capture even with the
- -r set. If this happens, use the "-c" option which will turn off the
- capture checking altogether.
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