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61 lines
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VIROPROT v2.1 - (v)1995 ûirogen Enterprises - 02-05-95
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Who says I'm not beneficial to society?
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I wrote this little utility to control the spread of virii on my system
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while I'm testing them. I figured I'd release a public version for the
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sake of mankind. THIS SOFTWARE IS *NOT* A DETECTION/REMOVAL UTILITY;
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WHILE IN MEMORY IT SIMPLY PREVENTS MY VIRII FROM LOADING THEMSELVES RESIDENT
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ONTO YOUR SYSTEM.
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How To Use
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Execute VIROPROT.COM to install in memory [occupies less than 1k]. Each
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successive run will activate/deactivate it. Protection is provided for:
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OffSpring v0.82/v0.89
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ASexual v0.99/v1.00
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PinWorm v1.0-v1.7
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Gee, how'z it work ûirogen?
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Each memory resident virus has it's own mechanism to detect it's presence
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in memory; if it didn't then the virus would eventually eat up all the
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system memory with hundreds of redudant copies of itself. While resident
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and activate, this program intercepts the virus's installation check and
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simulates the return of an already present virus, thus fooling the virus
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into thinking it's already memory resident, and so no need to install itself
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again.
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**SIDE-EFFECTS**
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Some Anti-Virus utilties may indicate that one or more of the viruses
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VIROPROT prevents infection of are resident in memory. This is a false
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alarm; it's just VIROPROT's mimacy response to a called installation check
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for a virus.
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PinWorm [all versions] uses an original mechanism to detect itself, which
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has the unavoidable side-effect of removing VSAFE/VWATCH from memory.
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History
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v1.0 - Distributed as PREVENT.COM -
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I wrote this for my private use a long time ago, and somehow it got
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spread around. This version may have had a bug in it which caused
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irradic system behavior [not sure though, who knows what copy got
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out].
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v2.0 - Distributed as VIROPROT v2.0 -
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þ Added ability to enable/disable itself in memory & more shit.
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þ Hopefully no bugs, I whipped it up pretty quick.
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01-11-95
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v2.1 - þ VIROPROT will now sound a beep when a virus installation check call
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is received and display the virus name at the top left corner of the
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screen.
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þ OOps. I made a little mistype and VIROPROT might interfere with
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the fetching of a child process's return code. This is fixed.
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