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- Bad File Finder 3.01, readme.1st-file...
-
-
- Hello,
-
- You find here a small update of Bad File Finder.
-
- Last year I promised that the netmail-option of BFF should be
- expanded. However I received not many reactions, so I decided to
- delay the programming of the netmail-option until April or the
- upcoming summer. Still some changes are made to this version:
-
- - BFF has always used the parameter AF (allfiles) when executing
- Tbscan. From version 6.32 on, TBScan will stop the program and
- will ask you to press a key. I can imagine that the author of
- TBAV has done this. A lot of false reports and positive report
- could be given by Tbscan, only it is annoying for people that
- want to use BFF in nightly events. I removed this parameter, so
- with this version I hope that this problem will be solved.
-
- - My telephone-number has been changed. You can connect me at
- telephonenumber 31-5910-79002 and 79001 (BBS-users only).
-
-
- Changes in version 3.00
-
- - As is said above; netmail is for version 3.00 and higher. See
- file NETMAIL.1ST about this information.
-
- - You can find 2 additional files in the archive of BFF. BBSBAT
- is a program that helps you making batch-files. It will try to
- let you understand the basics of BFF. You can also experiment
- with it. BFFCFG is a simple program that will make a configurati-
- on for you for the usage of BFF. In the future this small program
- will be updated when the netmail-option will be more structured.
-
- - I needed to add extended information for netmail-messages. Ugly
- netmail-bouncers like O(N)TOUR needs this information otherwise
- your message will be nicely garbaged. The local flag, private
- flag, the PID- and the INTL-kludge are now correctly added.
-
- - The errorlevels of McAffee's Scan have been implemented
-
- - An extra errorlevel of F-Prot has been implemented.
-
- - You might find a file named personal.bff in your directory when
- using the netmail-option. Leave this file as it is!
-
- - You will also find a document about the AlarmNet hacklist.
-
-
- Changes in version 2.53
-
- - There hasn't come out an international hack-report since more
- than a year now. The Dutch AlarmNet now also implement internati-
- onal hacks in their reports. BFF will also give these hacks.
-
- - A new very powerful option is that you have the possibility to
- manipulate that archive-bit of all archives on your HD. This can
- also be very dangerous. Read the manual !! Also some examples are
- given in the file examples.bff...
-
- The principle of the option R en S are that you're able now to
- scan all NEW archives that arrive on your HD at the time that it
- suits you.
-
- - A new command with the character I.
- In an ascii-file called FILES.BFF you can enter file-specs now
- that can be scanned by BFF. In earlier version of BFF only one
- directory or drive could be scanned.
-
- - A bug has been solved. The parameter-variables were cleared
- insufficiently. Sometimes BFF reacted strange when started-up.
-
- - In earlier versions of BFF, it removed the archive-bits of all
- files. With the introduction of the S- and R- option this has
- been changed.
-
-
- First important changes in BFF 2.51 to tell :
-
- - MacAfee's 2.00 has come out. Well, you'd better NOT try to work
- with it in combination with earlier versions of BFF. With the new
- MacAfee the parameters used by BFF has been changed also. The
- parameter /A that can be used with MacAfee 113 and earlier will
- not work anymore with version 2.00+. When you look at the file
- PATHS.BFF within this package and compare this file with earlier
- versions of BFF, you will see that I added one pathline for the
- new MacAfee.
-
- USE 'SCN=' FOR THE OLD MACAFEE-SCANNER
-
- USE 'NSC=' FOR THE NEW MAFAFEE-SCANNER
-
- ERASE THE LINE OF THE SCANNER YOU'RE NOT USING !
-
- I could not find the exit-codes used by MacAfee's 2.00. I hope to
- implement them in the next version of BFF.
-
- - You problably have noticed that BFF has come with a BFF.EXE and
- a BFF.OVR file. BFF will now try to load your program into EMS-
- memory so BFF will become a little quicker, and it will save
- lower memory. Users of earlier versions of BFF will know that
- memory problems occured with the old MacAfee's Scan. These
- problems now also occurred with the latest F-PROT. These problems
- are hopefully solved now. The betatester and me were'nt complai-
- ning the last week ;-)....
-
- - A little bug has been solved when using the archive-bit option.
- When a positive exitcode was received from a archiver or virus-
- scanner the archive-bit of the program concerned was stripped.
- This can not be the meaning of this.
-
- - I have not received a American Hacklist of Lee Jackson since
- september last year now. Also from Bill Lambdin I haven't seen
- anything. Maybe that someone can contact me and tell me where to
- find the international hacklist. Or better; can anyone tell me if
- there IS an international hacklist now. Maybe AlarmNet should
- take over and begin international contacts (How 'bout everyone
- start learning Dutch :-) ). The Dutch hacklist is up to date with
- BFF now (last issue April 1994).
-
- - When using the archive-option and only one file was selected,
- BFF did not recognize the filename as a file. It saw the first
- character of the filename as a drive-character. It was difficult
- to solve, but it works well now...
-
-
-
- Regards,
- Hans Govaarts, author Bad File Finder.