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