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Archive File - README FIRST!: Command AntiVirus for 9x
README FIRST! Command AntiVirus for Windows(r) 95, Windows 98, & Windows Me Command Software is proud to introduce Command AntiVirus Version 4.62.4 with HoloCheck(tm) scanning technology. HoloCheck scanning technology detects tens of thousands of viruses and includes improved polymorphic virus detection. NOTE: After installing Command AntiVirus, we recommend that you perform a manual scan of your local drives to ensure that your system is virus-free. This is especially important if you have not been running anti-virus software prior to this installation. For a list of international distributors of Command AntiVirus, see the DISTRIB.TXT file. The file called FILEINFO.TXT is a list of file descriptions and files that have changed since the previous release. Please read the Multi-Platform Quick Start Guide. It provides installation instructions and an overview of Command AntiVirus for all platforms. The Multi-Platform Quick Start Guide is included on the Command AntiVirus CD, or you can download it from our web site at http://www.commandsoftware.com/service/tc-quickst.html. The MQCKST.PDF file contains the Multi-Platform Quick Start Guide. This file can be read with the Adobe(r) Acrobat(r) Reader that is included on the Command AntiVirus CD. For instructions on how to install Acrobat Reader, see the README.TXT file that is located in the ADOBE folder on the CD. If you do not have the Command AntiVirus CD, you can download Acrobat Reader from Adobe Systems Incorporated through our web site at http://www.commandsoftware.com/service/tc-viewutil.html. A Release Notes section is provided for each release. It contains the following topics: * Special Notes - contains important pre- and post-installation information that pertains to the release. * Product Enhancements - contains information about new virus signatures, scan engine improvements, and new features. * Fixes - contains updated information on previously reported problems that have been fixed. _____________________________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.62.4 03 October 2001 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.62.4 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the previous Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. * All viruses previously referred to as W95/x are now named W32/x. For example, W95/Nimda.A@mm is now called W32/Nimda.A@mm. NOTE: x represents a name variable. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * Scan engine enhancements have been added to this release. It is now possible to disinfect some script viruses, for example, HTML files modified by the Nimda virus. * New virus signatures have been added in this release. FIXES * Particular types of VBS files caused the scan engine to false positive. The number of false positives has been decreased in this release. ______________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.62.2 21 September 2001 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.62.2 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the previous Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * New virus signatures have been added in this release. FIXES * Some customers reported that they could not map drives when using NetWare(r)login scripts. This has been fixed. * Some customers reported a system hang when Command AntiVirus disinfects certain viruses. This problem occurred only during disinfection. This has been fixed. __________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.62.1 10 September 2001 SPECIAL NOTES SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.62.1 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the previous Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * The scan engine has been enhanced to help detect some corrupted (non-working) samples of the Magistr virus. FIXES * A glitch in the scan engine emulator that caused random hang-ups and crashes was found. This has been fixed. __________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.62.0 04 September 2001 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.62.0 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the previous Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * Scan engine enhancements have been added to this release, for example, an ELF scanner has been added to cover Unix(r) viruses in native Unix file format. * New virus signatures have been added in this release. FIXES * It was reported that long lines caused the VBS scanner not to identify some viruses precisely. Viruses were detected, but the exact name of the virus was not given. This has been fixed. _______ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.61.5 06/21/01 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.61.5 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * New virus signatures have been added in this release. FIXES * Particular types of VBS files caused the scan engine to false positive. The number of false positives has been decreased in this release. * Some Windows Portable Executables (PE) SYS files caused the scan engine to false positive. This has been fixed. _______ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.61.4 05/17/01 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.61.4 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * None for this release. FIXES * Some users reported excessive consumption of CPU time. This has been fixed. * Some users reported false positives on SYS files. This has been fixed. * Some users reported false positives on particular VBS files. This has been fixed. _______ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.61.3 05/04/01 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.61.3 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * None for this release. FIXES * Some customers reported that occasionally Dynamic Virus Protection (DVP) crashes. This has been fixed. * Some customers reported that when the SCAN FIRST 640 KB OF MEMORY check box is selected in PREFERENCES/ACTIVE PROTECTION/MEMORY SCANNING, Command AntiVirus may crash when performing a manual scan. This has been fixed. _____________________________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.61.2 03/26/01 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.61.2 over any Beta version of Command AntiVirus, you MUST first uninstall the Beta version. * When you make any changes to the ACTIVE PROTECTION or FILES TO INCLUDE/EXCLUDE menu items of the PREFERENCES menu, you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * New virus signatures have been added in this release. * This release contains the following scan engine enhancements: - Scanning of Visio files is now supported. Heuristics scanning is now in place to help detect unknown Visio viruses. - Scanning of PIF files is now supported. PIF viruses can now be listed. - Scanning of PHP viruses is now supported. - Heuristics scanning is now in place to help detect unknown VBS viruses such as new variants of LoveLetter. - Our HoloCheck technology has been improved to detect a few new polymorphic viruses. FIXES * Some users experienced a delay when starting Command AntiVirus on slow computers. This delay has been significantly decreased. _____________________________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me (CSAV) Version 4.61 02/02/01 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98/Me Version 4.61 over a previous 4.59 Beta version, you MUST first uninstall the previous 4.59 Beta version. * When you enable or disable Dynamic Virus Protection (DVP), you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * This version includes protection for Windows Me. FIXES * A problem with some corrupt RAR files causing General Protection Faults (GPFs) has been fixed. _____________________________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95 and 98 (CSAV) Version 4.60 01/05/01 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98 Version 4.60 over a previous 4.59 Beta version, you MUST first uninstall the previous 4.59 Beta version. * When you enable or disable Dynamic Virus Protection (DVP), you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * This release contains scan engine enhancements that include detection for the W95/MTX.9244 virus and X97M/Jini-A1 misdisinfected viruses. * You can now use the /ARCHIVE switch to: - decode and scan messages in TNEF format - decode and scan UU-encoded messages - decompress and scan ACE files * The speed of scanning CAB files has been improved. * The Rescue Disk process has been updated. To create a Rescue Disk set now requires three (3) 3.5" high-density diskettes. The addition of the /LOADDEF switch allows you to perform a complete scan during recovery to detect and disinfect any virus-infected files. The rescue disk process involves two phases. The first phase focuses on recovery by detecting and removing any executable, boot sector, and MBR-infecting viruses that inhibit or prevent system startup. After successful recovery, the second phase focuses on scanning and disinfecting all remaining virus-infected files, for example, macro virus-infected files. To assure a successful rescue, you must perform both phases. To test the rescue disk set complete Steps 1 through 10 of Phase One. To use the rescue disk set, complete both Phase One and Phase Two. To perform Phase One, follow these steps: 1. Turn off your computer. 2. Place a virus-free, write-protected bootable diskette into drive A. 3. Turn on your computer. 4. If you are prompted to enter a new date and a new time, press Enter for each. 5. Remove the bootable diskette and insert Rescue Disk 1 into drive A. 6. At the A prompt, type the following: f-prot /hard /disinf /loaddef 7. Press Enter. The system prompts you to insert a diskette with SIGN.DEF. 8. Insert Rescue Disk 2 into drive A and press Enter. The system prompts you to insert a diskette with SIGN2.DEF. 9. Insert Rescue Disk 3 into drive A and press Enter. A scan of your hard drive begins immediately. If any viruses are detected, allow CSAV to disinfect them. 10. When the scan is complete, remove Rescue Disk 3 from drive A. 11. Proceed to Phase Two. To perform Phase Two, follow these steps: 1. Restart your computer as normal. 2. Use Command AntiVirus to perform a scan of your local hard drives. This scan detects and disinfects any remaining virus-infected files on your computer. After completing the Phase Two scan, you can now return to computing as normal. FIXES * The level of generated false positives for macro viruses has been reduced. * The problems reported with the Rescue Disk process in the graphical user interface (GUI) have been fixed. * The problem of scheduled scans and inactivity scans not working in machines with speeds of 300 MHZ or less has been fixed. _____________________________________________________________ RELEASE NOTES Notes on Command AntiVirus for Windows 95 and 98 (CSAV) Version 4.59.4 07/14/00 SPECIAL NOTES * If you are installing Command AntiVirus for Windows 95/98 Version 4.59.4 over a previous 4.59 Beta version, you MUST first uninstall the previous 4.59 Beta version. * When you enable or disable Dynamic Virus Protection (DVP), you may notice a 10 to 20 second delay. During this time, it may appear that the program is frozen. For example, you will be unable to perform any mouse movements or keyboard strokes. This is a result of loading or unloading DVP. After the slight delay, you will be able to continue as normal. PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS * This release contains an enhancement to the Automatic Update process. Files that are downloaded are now monitored to verify that they are not corrupted. FIXES * Some users reported a problem with updating Command AntiVirus when the CSS Central components were not installed with the previous release. This has been fixed. ************************************************************* PRODUCT SUPPORT Command Software Systems' technical support includes a variety of electronic services. You can contact us at: Command Software Systems, Inc. 1061 E. Indiantown Rd., Suite 500 Jupiter, FL 33477 Voice: 561/575-3200 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Fax: 561/575-3026 Internet: [email protected] FTP: ftp.commandsoftware.com Web: http://www.commandsoftware.com In Europe contact: Command Software Systems UK, Ltd. Ground Floor Millbank Tower Millbank London SW1P 4QP If dialing from within the UK: Voice: 020 7 931-9301 Fax: 020 7 931-9302 If dialing from outside the UK: Voice: +44 20 7 931-9301 Fax: +44 20 7 931-9302 Internet: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] In Pacific Rim, contact: Command Software Systems, PTY Pac Rim Unit 5, 18-20 Floriston Road Boronia, VIC 3155 Australia Voice: 1-300-65-0903 or 613-9762-2203 Fax: 1-300-65-0904 Internet: [email protected] Web: http://www.commandcom.com.au ====================================== END ========================================
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