BBS Adverts Cleaner V2.5 - An utility from The United States Of Escape

BBS Adverts Cleaner V2.5 is a new release from Escape's Tool section.
This version deletes much more BBS Adverts as the previous version.
The Cleaner knows at the moment 2880 (+1324) BBS adverts of 445 (+93)
different boards.

This programm deletes useless files (such as info files from curriers) and
files with 0 bytes length will be deleted as well.

Here's a list with some boards which are known by the cleaner (only BBS's
with 5 or more known ads are listed).

BBS Name                                Known BBS Ads   Changes

ACE BBS                                       786         +494
Alternative Nation BBS                          7
Arcade BBS                                      5
Blastersound BBS                                7
Blue Nose Productions BBS                      21         +  4
Braindead BBS                                   6
Britannia BBS                                   8
Buster BBS                                      6
Carrier Of Belief BBS                           6
Clippers Workshop BBS                          21         + 14
Coders F-X BBS                                  8
Comitek BBS                                     9
Corner BBS                                      6
Count Zero BBS                                  5
Crystal BBS                                     6
Cybercrime BBS                                  5
Cyclone BBS                                     6
Daily Terror BBS                                6
Deathray BBS                                    6
Deep Waters BBS                                 6
Digital Fuse BBS                                7
E-Connect BBS                                   5
Entrance BBS                                   28         +  6
Fatal Illusion BBS                              5
Fatal Legend BBS                                5
Freak Town City BBS                             5
Fuel-Line BBS                                   5
Fury BBS                                        6
Gates Of Dawn BBS                               5
Genesis BBS                                    21         + 10
Golden Image BBS                               19         +  2
Hideout BBS                                    16         +  4
House Adonis BBS                               10         +  3
House Of Pain BBS                               7
Incognito BBS                                   5
Land Of Rape And Honey BBS                     47         + 21
Lycaeum BBS                                     6
Marines BBS                                     6
MCI Escapes BBS                                 5
Metal Grave BBS                                 5
Mindwarp BBS                                    5
Mystery Land BBS                                6
Nightlife BBS                                  34         +  4
Nirvana BBS                                    15         +  5
Nosferatu BBS                                   5
Nuclear Disaster BBS                            7         +  2
Planet Hardcore BBS                            10         +  3
Pleasure Access BBS                             6
POB Support BBS                                 9
Pointbreak BBS                                  8         +  1
Prototype BBS                                  13         +  6
Psychotron BBS                                  6
Purple Rain BBS                                 5
Real Vision BBS                                 5
Red Or Dead BBS                                 5
Retaliator's Place BBS                         19
Sadness, Agony, Despair BBS                     8         +  1
Scenet BBS                                     14         +  6
Seven Gates BBS                                 5
Shelter Base BBS                                8         +  3
Shoebox Universe BBS                            9
Shutdown BBS                                    6         +  1
Silent System BBS                               8
Speed & Ecstasy BBS                             5
Stairway To Heaven BBS                          8
Stargate BBS                                   13         +  1
System Overheat BBS                             5
T. D. U. BBS                                    8         +  3
Tales Of Infinity BBS                          11
Tetsuo BBS                                      9         +  3
The Asylum BBS                                  8
The Court Of Justice BBS                        6
The Firm BBS                                    5
The Last Resort BBS                             8
The Lost Grid BBS                              13         +  2
The Resistance BBS                             11
The Tribe BBS                                  15         +  7
Toxin Refinery BBS                             12
Trioptimum BBS                                 11
Triplex BBS                                     5
Undercover BBS                                 15         +  2
Underworld BBS                                 10         +  4
Unknown BBS                                   697         +365
Wicked City BBS                                 9         +  2
Wintermoon BBS                                  5
World Of Illusion BBS                           5
X-Press BBS                                    12         +  2

You may wonder why the Cleaner uses only about 40 KB. Well, all adverts got a
CRC and the cleaning routine checks for the length and the right CRC.
All in all the 2880 adverts use more than 10 MB of data.

The cleaner creates two files in your root directory of C:

bbsclean.inf > This file keeps some information about the deleted files
> which are shown in bbsclean.txt

bbsclean.txt > This file shows all knows BBS with the known and deleted ads.
> Furthermore it shows the 'at all' deleted bytes.

How to use the programm:

The programm checks all files in the current directory. No packed files are
supported. So just start it with BBSCLEAN.EXE

If you want to delete adverts from your archives then it's useful to do it
with RCVT (Archive Converter; an enclosed tool in RAR distribution package).
Just insert the following line into RCVT.CFG

scan c:\dos\bbsclean.exe    [If you've copied it into c:\dos for example]

All sysops can use this tool in their upload routines. Sorry, but as I'm no
sysop I can't give you some more informations. But it should be no problem
as you can insert external programms (for example virus scanners) in your
upload routines. If someone can give me detailed informations than feel free
to contact me.

Further improvements:

* FILE_ID.DIZ Cleaner
* Cleaing in sub-directories
* Setup for BBS Cleaner (switch for delete files or only report...)

Infos? Suggestions? Contact Pussyrider in the following ways:

* Snail Mail : Matthias Alpmann
Zum Brünneken 1
D-33154 Salzkotten
Germany

* E-Mail :     geneticdr@aol.com
w1h6am@nos1.pb.bib.de