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- VIRSTOP 1.05
-
- Copyright 1989 Tacoma Software Systems
- 7526 John Dower Road W.
- Tacoma, WA 98467
- 206 858 2353
-
- VIRSTOP.EXE Validation Data:
-
- Program Size: 24,710
- Creation Date: 01-06-1990
- M1: 633E
- M2: 1C3F
-
- Tacoma Software Systems is an active participant in the Shareware
- Validation Group, and the above validation information may be
- verified on the HomeBase validation data base at 408 988 4004.
- The VALIDATE program is distributed with this package with
- permission of the Shareware Validation Group.
-
- Introduction:
-
- VIRSTOP is a memory resident program that prevents viruses
- from infecting your system. It is fully compatible with the
- standard virus naming conventions and string identifiers used by
- the McAfee Associates' SCAN program, and it is able to prevent
- infection from all of the COM, EXE and overlay viruses detected by
- the current version of SCAN. Tacoma Software Systems is committed
- to keeping VIRSTOP up to date and will continue to provide full
- compatibility with future versions of SCAN.
- VIRSTOP is tighter, faster and less expensive than McAfee
- Associates SCANRES, it does not cause the memory resident conflicts
- and false alarms associated with Ross Greenberg's Flu-Shot+, and
- yet it provides a high degree of protection against all known
- program viruses.
- VIRSTOP works by checking programs for viruses before the
- programs are allowed to load into memory and execute. If a program
- contains a virus, it will not be allowed to load into memory. The
- virus will never get a chance to execute and cause damage to your
- system or spread to other program files. If a program does not
- contain a virus, the program will be allowed to load and execute
- normally and VIRSTOP will go back to sleep until the next program
- load and execute request is made.
- If a program is found to contain a virus, VIRSTOP will
- identify the strain of virus that has caused the infection.
- VIRSTOP can identify 60 major virus strains and numerous
- sub-varieties for each strain. The 60 viruses are:
-
- Oropax
- 4096 Chaos
- AIDS Trojan Virus-90
- Amstrad Devil's Dance
- Holland Girl Datacrime II-B
- Do-Nothing virus Sunday virus
- Lisbon virus Typo COM virus
- DBASE virus Ghost / Ghostball Boot Version
- Ghost COM Version New Jerusalem
- Alabama Yankee Doodle
- 2930 Ashar
- AIDS / VGA2CGA / Taunt Disk Killer / Ogre
- 1536 / Zero Bug MIX1
- Dark Avenger 3551 / Syslock
- Vacsina Ohio
- Typo Swap / Israeli Boot
- 1514 / Datacrime II Icelandic-II / System Virus
- Pentagon 3066 / Traceback
- 1168 / Datacrime-B Icelandic
- Saratoga 405
- 1704 Format Fu Manchu / 2086
- 1280 / Datacrime 1701 / Cascade
- 1704 / Cascade-B Stoned / Marijuana
- 1704 / Cascade Ping Pong-B / Falling letters Boot
- Den Zuk Ping Pong / Italian / Bouncing Dot
- Vienna-B Lehigh
- Vienna / 648 / DOS-62 Jerusalem-B
- Yale / Alameda Friday 13th COM virus
- Jerusalem / 1813 Suriv03
- Suriv02 Suriv01
- Pakistani Brain
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-
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- How to run VIRSTOP:
-
- NOTE: Copy VIRSTOP.EXE to a floppy and then write protect the
- floppy prior to installing it. This will provide a known working
- backup copy in the event that the program becomes infected.
-
- To install VIRSTOP, place the following line at the beginning
- of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- VIRSTOP
-
- Then copy the file VIRSTOP.EXE to the root directory of your
- bootable hard drive.
-
-
- VIRSTOP will activate each time the system is powered-on or
- re-booted. It checks the critical areas of the system for viruses,
- including the partition table, boot sector, hidden system files and
- itself, and then monitors all program loads. As programs are
- loaded, VIRSTOP will scan the programs for viruses. If a virus is
- found, VIRSTOP will display a warning message and name the
- infection. The infected program will not be loaded.
-
- Registration:
-
- A registration fee of $20 is required for the use of VIRSTOP
- by individual home users. Registrations should be sent to the
- address below. Add $7 for diskette mailings.
-
- Corporate and organizational use:
-
- Corporate site licenses are required for corporate, agency and
- organizational use. For site license information contact:
-
- Tacoma Software Systems
- 7526 John Dower Road W.
- Tacoma, WA 98467
- (206) 858 2353