Virus Script Suite: History

2.04       3/21/95:
     -Changed the VSUITE.DOC file to note a problem discovered when
      using Novell-style names with 4DOS piping.

     -Redid the order of the HISTORY file to put the most recent changes
      first in the list (wow).

     -Changed some installer text to reflect the Novell naming problems
      I had found.

     -Corrected some of the code in the reporting section which could
      cause some machines to not report anything other than date and
      time when a virus problem was found.
                                  
2.03       2/21/95:
     -Added a direct path to the .bat file which calls the scanner,
      speeding up network access.

     -Made the check for Windows in the scripts look only for Windows
      running in 386 Enhanced mode (which is the only mode with 32 bit
      disk access).

     -Added a check for the temporary directory on the local drive when
      the scanner is called, and create it if it does not exist.

     -Reduced the free diskspace needed on local machines for the F-Prot
      files closer to the actual size of the F-Prot file sizes.

2.02       1/17/95:
     -Fixed a problem in the reporting section of the script which
      caused the user's name to not appear on reports some times.

     -Removed unnecessary code, to the tune of about a dozen lines, to
      help the speed of the scanner.

2.01      12/06/94:
     -Corrected a bug that stored the virus reports on the wrong path,
      making them invisible to the scripts.

     -Fixed some screen alignments, changed a few colors for better
      contrast on dark screens.

2.0      12/05/94:
     -Complete rewrite from scratch. Now, the system no longer requires
      the UNIX-like utils GREP and SED and such. Also, you don't have to
      have a mail system running to use this utility, nor do you need as
      much memory (scripts were optimized).

     -Memory scanned upon entering the script, not upon the first disk
      scan.

     -Reporting is handled via an extended VCHECK script now, and
      reports are not mailed to you, but instead displayed and then
      archived upon your logging into the server.

     -Checks added for numerous things, such as environment space and
      whether or not a user is running the script from under Windows
      (which for system handling reasons I feel it's best to run virus
      scanning software from plain old DOS).

     -The installer was completely rewritten as well. More useful
      information is put onscreen during installation, and the
      implementation was thought out instead of being hacked together.

     -Alert Messages changed, and now instead of just giving the user a
      brief description, a thorough description of any problems
      encountered during scanning are presented.

     -New interface, which is (so I hear) easier to use.

     -HELP file included within the scanner now, to give people who
      don't have a clue how to scan or why to scan, a clue.

     -Screentext and documentation were checked for speling errers.

1.5       8/1/94:
     -Edited the release after discovery of a new version of F-Prot
      which had hit the SimTel archives the same morning. Now, the
      scanner can detect a seventh type of problem: questionable files.
      This will not really affect anyone using the scripts unedited
      since the heuristic scan option is not used, but I put in a check
      for it just in case. If you do use the heuristic option in the
      scanner (check the F-Prot documentation for more on how to add
      this option), and a questionable file is found, the station will
      NOT lock down (as it would have otherwise), but the user is
      notified that a questionable file was found, and the virus report
      and summary files are updated and forwarded to you, as if there
      had been an identifiable string.

     -Fixed a mailer bug; virus reports were being labelled incorrectly.

     -Cleaned up a minor screen bug.


1.4       8/1/94:
     -First public release, included an installer. Likely the shortest
      lived release in the history of computers. Added report code in a
      new reliease of F-Prot required an update five minutes after I had
      posted the archive.

1.3       7/94:
     -Pre-release beta; Reprogrammed and redesigned for
      universal implementation.

1.0-1.2   7/94:
     -Local scripts. Designed and implemented as a single server
      solution.