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• Repulse
  New Amiga soundcard from Alien Designs reviewed and rated.
• Customise Your Amiga
  It's not just Apple who can make attractive desktop computers. You can too! We show you how.
• MathEngineering
  Making games come to life is a tricky task, but one that Oxford-based MathEngine have risen to.

• Improved the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Link virus. Should be able to detect 99.9% of this virus now... Thanks to Jan Andersen and Treveur BRETAUDIERE for the files
• Fixed bug in recog for Bastard Installer 1 File virus
• Added recog for 'EICAR STANDARD AV-TEST FILE'. This is not a virus, but a testfile that can be found on http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm. The purpose of this test file is to check that your favourite anti virus program really finds it! Deep inside arhcives etc... PS! This is a data file, so you might turn on the 'data file checking' in your virus killer. Thanks to Sami Rautiainen for telling me about this file.

• 28.08.01 new: Advantage Tennis (Infogrames) done by Jeff (ReadMe)
• 28.08.01 improved: Obliterator (Psygnosis) various changes (ReadMe)
• 28.08.01 updated: Deuteros (Ian Bird) uses kickemu now (ReadMe)
• 27.08.01 new: Biplane Duel (Peter Mason) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
• 26.08.01 improved: Project X (Team 17) supports another version (ReadMe)
• 26.08.01 new: Phobia (Mirrorsoft/Imageworks) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)
• 23.08.01 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold) misc improvements (ReadMe)
• 23.08.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) better installation process (ReadMe)
• 23.08.01 improved: Rockstar Ate My Hamster! (Colin Jones/Codemasters) supports another version (ReadMe)
• 23.08.01 new: No Excuses (Arcana) done by John Girvin (ReadMe)
• 23.08.01 new: International 3D Tennis (Sensible Software/Palace) done by Codetapper (ReadMe)

• added possibility to change name of safe on installation. It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain, so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that. Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement! This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
• removed some outdated info from html documentation Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide. Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
• removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
• added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard in the Amiga universe

• Self-identification method in files:
  - via unused bits visible in dos flags
• Self-identification method in memory:
  - checks for 'HH5' process
• System infection:
  - A new process entitled 'HH5' will be created and this is the only visible change in the system. That process infects files using the known Smeg code, but the way of getting targets is new.
  - The virus patches return address from Wait() call of device's tasks. This is very clever idea which lets the virus patch devices which's code is placed even in ROM. The LOCATE_OBJECT and EXAMINE_NEXT packets will be stolen.
• Infection preconditions:
  - HUNK_CODE is found
  - device is validated
  - at least 6 free blocks
  - filename does not start with "vir" and "saf"
  (case independant check)
  - file is bigger than 4190 bytes
  - file is smaller than 100377 bytes

• The infection is based on the packet handling of AMIGA OS. Every started or listed file can be infected.

• all DOS-devices

• None

• Permanent damage: - none
• Transient damage: - none

• Permanent damage: - none
• Transient damage: - none

• Uses slow polymorphism! Only this little fact mislooked by Jan Erik Olausen (and Jan Andersen) made filedetection in xvs.library the biggest AV joke seen for Amiga computers ever! At the moment xvs.library detects 3 variants of virus from several millions possible!
• The stack patches are done very clever and the code is flexible enough to handle differences between OS versions (including newer than 3.1). Most of code is equal to first SMEG virus. If the accessed file starts with the string "VIR" or "SAF" (case independant), the file will be not infected.

• It could be seen as third kind of SMEG2, but the polyengine made it one of the most advanced viruses for Amiga.

• None. The virus does not put infected file length like BOBEK viruses to ExNext's FIB, so it is likely that under controll of virus user will cut files. Salvage will be never possible as it was for HH4.11 which's files several times appeared in truncated form due to it's stealth... :-)

• Uses so called HAVOC polyengine. This is the best such engine in Amiga virus at the moment. The decoders are placed after the decoder block, and the loop could contain very much logical stuff. The decoders are made metamorphically and are built of various jumps backward and forward.
  Such decoders can be detected only in alghorythmic way. Detection of this virus is impossible with technics like breaking the cryptings (lot of stuff) and tracing (entry point!).
  The decoder is generated on virus startup, so after reboot files are infected always with new decoders.

• The virus contains text: HAVOC

• "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick succession to get a route overview very fast, then does accurate timings for the individual hops
• "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host to measure network latency and stability.
• graphical display of hop min/last/max timings
• integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo determines the WHOIS host to query.
• automatically retrieves WHOIS network information for hosts
• automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP server versions
• history for all queried hosts
• integrated FINGER client
• integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
• ARexx port

• Airbus A320 Vol.2, including english handbook (185 pages), NTSC- and PAL-versions, Europe-, US-North and US-West-sceneries, High Quality-Photos
• Approach Trainer, including a german handbook (98 pages)
• Aufschwung Ost, german version
• Aunt Artic Adventure
• Charon 5
• Hannibal, german version
• Ju52
• Ports of Call, german and english version
• SeaLance
• Space MAX, german version
• Tie Break
• Train Driver 1.6
• Wreckage

• Added 24bit BGR/GRAY renderer, it's 27% faster than 32bit ARGB with the same quality!
• Added new CSS-key extraction code, made all DVDs I have work.
• Rewrote the motion compensation routines, made the MPEGV decoder 14% faster.
• Rewritten the audio.device routines, these are completely free from any context switches what so ever.
• Wrote generic requester routines, just as ugly as the DVD ones, but now also used for VCD and CD-i playback.
• Added OS9 (CD-i) and ISO9660 (VCD) filesystem parsers.
• Using the 56KHZAUDIO CGFX env-variable, one can now get 44100Hz playback through audio.device.
• Changed VCDDEVICE, VCDUNIT to DEVICE, UNIT. Removed VCDTRACK.
• Added pause (SPACE, ENTER to continue) and windowscreen switch (L-/RAmiga + ENTER).
• The window title now contain filename and video size.
• GUI: Updated to work with the new AMP executable.

• Amiga's Role in the PDA Market
• Amiga Flame Interview with Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc.
• Amiga Flame Interview with Thomas Steiding of Epic Interactive
• Edivision Announce Support for the Amiga DE
• Amiga PDA Games

• 23.08.01 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold)
• 23.08.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark)
• 23.08.01 improved: Rockstar Ate My Hamster! (Colin Jones/Codemasters)
• 23.08.01 new: No Excuses (Arcana)
• 23.08.01 new: International 3D Tennis (Sensible Software/Palace)
• 23.08.01 improved: Ikari Warriors (Elite)
• 23.08.01 new: Hong Kong Phooey (Hi-Tec)
• 23.08.01 improved: Hard Drivin' 2 (Domark)
• 23.08.01 improved: Hard Drivin' (Domark)
• 23.08.01 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog)
• 23.08.01 new: Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm)

• Totally reworked VECS option, which now allows to see the most interesting task fields!
• Finally fixed all BUGS with 000 processors.
• HitchHiker 5.0 is on the wild! Please wait for more detailed information and AV-software from Vht-Dk. Markus Schmall said he will take a look at this one.

• New ASM-test reports from the ASM 8/86: DragonsLair (C64, Schneider, Spectrum), LeatherGoddessesofPhobos (C-64, Amiga, AtariST, Schneider), NuclearEmbargo (C-64), TheBardsTale (C-64/128, Apple II) original advertisement inclusive.
• New packets of cult-games: Ambermoon, Siedler 3, Populous.
• Interesting link for Powerplay-fans about the history of Powerplay.

• Picasso96_Prometheus.lha - Picasso96 full fixed installation package
• V3_Aug17.lha - archive containing only fixed library and driver
• P96API_fix.lha - fixed Picasso96API.library
• EMU_fix.lha - fixed emulation.library

• When program quit, should just close all the windows without reopening the Startup window.
• Modification to the Login system as I found that I was using the MOTD for doing some final login routines and was getting the MOTD twice (and having a screwed up login due to it - didn't stop from logging in though)
• Adjusted Relogin/Reset systems to show Reconnected in the Activity window, as I had intended some time ago (Error was related to the MOTD bug above)

• Added Jode Capullos 2 Trojan file virus
  Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for the file
• Renamed MKG to Jode Capullos 1
• Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Installer file virus
  This is the same for all three link viruses
• Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Link virus
  Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00a Link virus
  Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00b Link virus
  Thanks to Jan Andersen for the HH5 files.

• VE doesn't need the VirusExecutor: assign anymore, so you can delete some lines in s:user-startup. IMPORTANT! All files that comes with VE must be in the same directory where the main program are located! (Not libraries and catalogs).
• Recoded 'View patch memory'... It's quite similar to the memory monitor in VirusZ.
• Thanks to Harry, VE do get the right opcodes when checking for patched functions.
• Added decoding of 4 shell-scripts. The DKG-Blum and Jode Capullos virus was hiding in such scripts.
• Fixed some 'out of address' bugs while checking memory.
• Added AHI device channel 0 right.
• Fixed small bug in the vector check window, that could cause strange characters to be displayed.
• Fixed bug when removing a deleted file from the watch list.
• Added close gadget to the prefs window.
• Added 'Fast file checking' to the prefs window. Activating this flag will disable all text output, memory checking and some error messages during file checking...
• When the 'Skip encrypted files'-flag are set, encrypted arhives are also skipped.
• Added LVO names to device functions.
• Fixed text out of range bug when viewing memory.
• Fixed Enforcer hit in 'View KickMemPtr/KickMemPtr'.
• When VE is infected with a virus it says it is modified and quits. Stupid, cause when a virus is around, VE should not quit! Fixed.
• Added powerpc.library recog to 'Soft Int'
• Added COP to memory recog.

• Repaired bug in updateicon which sometimes caused icons to appear in incorrect windows
• Duplicating/cloning items now pops up the file copying progress window
• Dragging multiple icons now shows one or two text lines under pointer telling how many files and drawers are being dragged
• Fixed severe bug in wbl.c: WBNode's were allocated with AllocVecPooled() and freed with FreeVec()
• Added a varargs version of SCA_ScreenTitleMsg()
• Added flag to switch between Flag: old dragging (all icons visible) and new "icon stack"
• Added new SCA_ScalosControl() tags SCALOSCTRLA_GetOldDragIconMode and SCALOSCTRLA_SetOldDragIconMode
• IconWinCheckUpdate() now correctly updates INF_DefaultIcon flag and INF_SupportsLeaveOut attribute
• Missed a CurrentDir() when renaming objects, leading to a directory lock getting never UnLock()ed
• When D&D copying or moving icons, "Replace All" and "Abort" now should work correctly Message strings "xxx already exists" are now different when moving and copying objects
• When moving icons inside window and new position overlaps other icon, the moved icons now jump back to their original positions

• moon shadow on Earth at eclipse was slightly wrong since last version
• drawing of parabola-like orbits was corrected
• error in PHA check corrected
• positions of Martian moons corrected (wrong reference level)
• improved position calculation of the Galilean Moons (very exact over a long course of time)

• new moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (!) and Pluto (!)
• partially renewed calculation kernel
• more maps of Mars, Venus and the Galilean Moons
• filtering functions for planets/moons, deep sky objects and constellations. They allow to set drawing parameters for each single object or groups of objects
• reworked textures
• telescope can be controlled now also with numeric pad in the main and telescope window
• import of comet orbit data directly from the internet!
• for future versions there's now an automated update from the internet available. The annoying Shell command line procedure is history.
• Online information from the internet on planets/moons, Messier objects and constellations (through OpenURL).

YAM-Rexx.lha         comm/mail    3K+ARexx Scripte zum Ausdruck neuer Mails
lynx.lha             comm/www   978K+Great WWW Browser,version 284rel1
rpf-firenice.lha     demo/intro   3K+Fire n Ice Cracktro from RPF
SceneryA120.lha      demo/mag   1.4M+Scenery - Scene History Book V1.20
LGUI_Tagalog.lha     dev/misc   241K+LGUI_Tagalog - A Language for LGUI.
AaktInt0701.lha      docs/mags  165K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0701GFX.lha   docs/mags  169K+International infotainment magazine (gra
ExamIntProgSol.txt   docs/misc    1K+Solution of a Programming Exam of my Uni
E2140G-MENU1.lzh     game/patch 1.7M+German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/5 *
gumband.lha          game/role  971K+Gumband 2.1.7b - Roguelike solo RPG
diru.lha             misc/misc    0K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
diru_nodb.lha        misc/misc   85K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
sap.lha              misc/misc  655K+Polish-English-Polish dictionary
THORfont.lha         text/bfont   4K+Bitmapped font for email/news reading
alba.lha             util/boot   65K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
cvs-1.11.1p1.lha     util/gnu   719K+CVS 1.11.1p1 - Concurrent Versions Syste
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  24K+PatchBrain v1.36 for VirusExecutor v2.xx

• Name: xvs.library v33.29
  Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
  Archiv size: 56.611 Bytes
  Release date: 16. August 2001
  Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
  E-mail: virusexecutor@c2i.net

• Added MKG Trojan File virus
  Thanks to Golds for the file.
• xvs.library has changed name...
  from: The eXternal Virus Support Library
  to: The eXternal Virus Scanner Library

• The AHI-standard drivers for music cards to provide support for Sound Blaster PCI128 cards based on ES1371, ES1373, CT5880 and EV1938 chipsets.
• The Sound Blaster PCI128 card makes use of the PCI bus in the Mediator busboard as the busmaster performing DMA operations to/from the external memory.
• With 8- and 16-bit mono and stereo playback and 16-bit stereo recording plus user-selectable sampling rates from 5kHz to 48kHz, the Sound Blaster PCI128 produces precise audio fidelity.
• Possible connection of 2 or 4 (optional) speakers for an engulfing 3D-surround sound experience.
• Two independent stereo DACs for simultaneous playbacking of two stereo PCM channels.
• Mixer: All inputs can be mixed together. Simultaneous recording from all the inputs is possible. The volume and balance can be changed independently for each input and output.

• Drivers for TV tuner cards provide support for tuner cards based on the Bt878 Video Decoder.
• The TV screen is rendered in the graphic card screen in a user-scalable window (PIP).
• The TV tuner cards make use of the PCI bus in the Mediator busboard as a busmaster performing DMA operations to the graphic card memory.
• TV tuner card running in the Mediator PCI busboard does not enforce any extra load on the Amiga's processor at all.
• When full-screen TV image is generated, data transfer over the PCI bus between the TV tuner card and the graphic card is executed at 44MB/s.

• Enhanced drivers for the Voodoo graphic card family.
• In the case of Mediator PCI 1200, the package allows using the memory window jumper set to 8MB independently of the Mediator PCI 1200 busboard series.

• Change: 'poll-for-result' removed. Instead of it there are 'result-available?' and 'get-result' (see documentation for further information).
• Change: The Serialization was improved and works now noticeably better.
• New: 'sexec' supports now the options '/oneway' and '/deferred'.
• New: Rugby-servers support now generation of Stub-code which can be automatically imported of clients with 'get-rugby-service <url>'. Thus for all Rugby-service-functions which are available for <url> Wrapper-functions can be dedicated. Therefore it is possible you only have to write 'echo "lala"' instead of 'rexec [ echo "lala" ]'.
• New: The main archive contains the source code of Rugby in the modul form.
• New: Documentation (update of the Rebol Zine-article)

• Name: VEPatchBrain v1.36
• Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
• Archive size: 24.329 Bytes
• Date: 14. August 2001
• Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
• Needed: VirusExecutor V2.xx

• ppc.library v44.36
• OutLineFont v1.4
• Sashimi v1.7
• powerpc.library v16.0
• WipeOut v1.30
• COP v1.85
• 68060.library v46.7
• Two more patches to MCP v1.33
• Two more patches to multiuser.library v39.166
• One more patch to Birdie 2000

• Fixed bug in the memory check routine for Smeg2. Thanks to Luca, Harry and Dirk for telling me about this bug. It will not happen again!

• Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.

• Bugfix: Usage of 'EN' instead of 'US' for language-selection.
• Bugfix: The browse()-function now gets a correct URL.
• New: Markings for indents ('**', '***' and so on)
• New: The floating-text now uses blockquote (CSS: 'justify').
• New: Underline, italic and bold are now supported inside of a paragraph.
• Change: 'make-doc-pro' now uses XYZstart, ... , XYZend-markings, for marking a special area for a certain format.

• 11. August 01 new: The Deep (Cream Corp/US Gold)
• 11. August 01 new: Project X (Team 17)
• 11. August 01 new: Motorhead (Virgin)
• 11. August 01 new: Fire Force (ICE)

• Found and removed bug in Single Window mode when Timestamps are selected.
• Buddy List window now has different settable size for Single Window and Standard modes.
• Timestamps now default to the correct values as set in prefs.
• Changed the 'Always view time stamp' to 'Display time stamp by default' for prefs item text.

• New: Multi image TIFF files support. Applications can select the picture to be displayed via PDTA_GetNumPictures- and PDTA_WhichPicture tags.
• New: CMYK graphics support.
• Bugfix: PixarLog decompression did not work.
• Bugfix: Files missing the StripByteCounts tag don't cause crashes, any more.
• Bugfix: Files missing information about samples per pixel now are loaded without problems.
• Bugfix: Fixed problems while operating pictures without separate colour components.
• Changed: Error operation and error code return have been reworked and enhanced.
• Changed: Several code not needed any more was removed.

• New: Header files for GCC, VBCC, SAS/C, and StormC.
• New: Source code examples now can be compiles using the above mentioned compilers.
• New: The 'developer.guide' was extended with a description of the PCI interrupt handling.
• Bugfix: A little bug in the 'prometheus.library' was fixed; PrmScan ended up in an endless loop if there was no PCI board installed.