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- ViewBoot v1.01 -- (c)1988 by Late Night Hacks 2 MAR 1988
-
- About ViewBoot
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-
- This program provides a convienient way of examining the boot block of
- a disk to determine the presence of a 'virus'. The program presently
- checks for the existance of the AEK, SCA, LSD, and Byte Bandit viruses. If
- the virus check itself is defeated, the program still allows you to view
- the boot block of a disk in an ascii format to check for character strings
- that may alert you to the presence of a virus.
-
- ViewBoot may be called from either the CLI or the Workbench environment. When
- the program is first called, it will examine the disk in DF0 and then present
- the contents of the boot block to the screen. You may then choose other
- drives present on the system to examine by way of an Intuition type
- menu.
-
- After ViewBoot has scanned a disk and found a virus, it will display a
- requester alerting you of it's find and state which virus it is. When a virus
- is found, ViewBoot allows you the option to erase it then or you can
- continue checking disks and delete it later.
-
- ViewBoot also allows you to check your memory for the presence of a virus, and
- if not able to find any of the viruses mentioned above, it allows you
- to have a peek at the memory where the above viruses are found (0x7ec00 -
- 0x7f000) just to be sure. As it does after reading a disk, ViewBoot will
- display the memory in ascii format so you can check for character strings that
- may alert you to the fact that a virus has made itself a nice warm home in
- your computer's memory.
-
- Using ViewBoot
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- If you are in the CLI environment, just type VIEWBOOT and pretty soon you'll
- see a wierd looking screen and you can go about scanning your disks for nasty
- little viruses. If you want to use ViewBoot in the WorkBench, you must first
- rename the file 'ViewBoot.inf' to 'ViewBoot.info'. Once you have renamed the
- file and gone into WorkBench, double click on the icon that looks like a
- Jump Boot and you'll be presented with the wierd looking screen at which time
- you may do the same as the non-lazy person does from the CLI (just kidding Vern).
-
-
- ViewBoot Menu Options
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- View Boot Block of - |df0:| Right Amiga-0
- |df1:| Right Amiga-1
- |df2:| Right Amiga-2
- |df3:| Right Amiga-3
-
- This option is for viewing the boot block of the specified drive.
-
- Install - |Install df0:|
- |Install df1:|
- |Install df2:|
- |Install df3:|
-
- This option will delete the virus and perform an INSTALL on the disk in the
- drive specified. I would suggest against using this on disks where some
- form of copy protection is placed in the boot block. The disk is probably
- useless if it has a virus on it anyway so your best bet would be to send
- it back to the software house that put the program out.
-
- Memory - |Virus Check| Right Amiga-C
- |View Memory| Right Amiga-V
-
- These two options allow you to check your memory for a virus. 'Virus Check'
- will search for any of the above mentioned viruses and if one is found, it
- will display a requester telling you of it's find. If one is not found,
- it will tell you that also and recommend you do a visual search just in
- case.
-
- 'View Memory' will display in ascii format the memory location of the
- virus. If you see nothing but a bunch of ................'s you can be
- pretty sure that one has not found it's way into your computer. Well, at
- least not at that location... If a virus is found, I would suggest
- powering down the system and restarting with a fresh WorkBench disk (assuming
- you still have one).
-
- Quit - Right Amiga-Q
-
- Exit back to the real world?
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- When viewing your disks, some character strings to keep an eye out for
- are:
-
- "Virus by Byte Bandit" (Byte Bandit Virus) - Sector 0
- "Something wonderful has happened" (SCA Virus) - Sector 1
- "Another future of programming" and "Spread by Micro-Master" (AEK Virus) - Sector 1
-
- I've not seen the LSD virus yet, but a couple of people have told me
- that the program picks it right up anyway.
-
- Thats about it for now so I will end this by stating that this program is
- placed in the public domain by the author (me, Brian Meadows) and may be
- distributed freely to all but it is not to be sold.
-
- If you have any comments or bug reports, I can be reached at the numbers
- listed below.
-
- Brian Meadows
- (205)854-2356 - Voice
- or
- (205)854-6407 - Vikki Highfield's Magnolia BBS (300/1200/2400 bps) 24 Hours a day.
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