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$Header: /home/cvs/src/prj/vsp/relnotes.txt,v 1.58 2026/04/16 15:31:44 ralph Exp $


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VirScan Plus Release Notes              (VSP road map see at the end)
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30.x  - April 2026      Added tons of new viruses. Therefore we have meanwhile 
                        a memory issue with DOS and the Overlay Manager has to 
                        be rearranged.

25.x  - Dec. 2023       All enhancements, signatures etc. from MPScan and RMS
                        development included

23.0  - Feb. 2023       Complete rewritten IRC and Batch scan engine. New viruses.
                        Complete rewritten command line handling.

22.2  - Jan. 2023       New viruses. Old AV Tools (HMS, ChkPC etc.) enhanced and
                        version number bumped to 5.00

22.00 - Dec. 2022       Added the scan engine from MPScan to VSP which brings
                        additional detection of approx. 24.000 viruses to VSP.

                        Massive enhancements for the modules AVR:Tiny, AVR:Mini,
                        AVR:Trivial and AVR:Silly to provide better detection.

21.56 - Oct. 2022       Added option /NOQMS. Added new viruses. Enhanced documentation

20.77 - Feb. 2022       Added engine to detect DOS debug script viruses.
                        Massive internal changes, not user visible. Added
                        hundreds of new viruses.

20.00 - June 2021       Hunderts of new viruses added. Therefore the internal
                        virus database had changed and all virscan.* database
                        files need to be replaced by newer versions!

                        Updated and changed the VBS/Batch/Mirc detection
                        routines.

18.08 - Sept. 2020      New viruses added.

18.00 - July 2020       New viruses added (~5000), updated documentation and tools.

17.74 - December 2019   New viruses added, updated documentation and tools.

17.59 - December 2018   New viruses added, updated documentation.
17.55 - August 2018     New viruses added

17.29 - Sept. 2017      Public release
17.26 - Sept. 2017      New viruses and small enhancements. (+20000)

16.35 - April 2016      New viruses and small enhancements.

16.03 - April 2015      New viruses and small enhancements.

15.98 - Nov. 2014       New viruses and small enhancements.
15.91 - March 2014      New viruses and small enhancements.

15.82 - Dec. 2013       new analyzer for encrypted script viruses. Thousands
                        of new viruses added.

15.27 - May 2011        ++500 viruses. Enhancements and fixes.

15.20 - July 2010       ++700 viruses. Enhanced win32 generic detection added.
15.16 - April 2010      ++1000 viruses, documentation and tools enhanced.

15.05 - Nov. 2008       small bug fixes and enhancements
15.04 - Aug. 2008,      Windows.Vista.SP1-DE
15.01 - March 2008,     MBR.Rootkit.Torpig

14.91 - Nov. 2006
14.85 - Feb. 2006

New viruses, new stuff, enhanced tools and documentation....

14.70 - March 2005

New viruses, new engines, new data base format (3.00). Enhanced the tools (chkpc...)

14.08 - June 2004

400 new viruses added. Small fixes for VBS, IRC and Batch file detection

14.05 - March 2004

Added new viruses and new Trojan live check (in Quick Memory Scan).

14.00 - February 2004

New viruses. Enhanced the command line handling engine. Enhanced the
documentation.

12.95 - November 2003

Enhanced the documentation. Benefits from the enhancements made for Linux.
New viruses and engines. Added programs like PeHead, ExeHead etc. to the
full version.

12.88 - August 2003

Bug fixes. Memory test enhanced. New viruses (as usual). Heavy tested
under Windows XP Pro and Home.

12.80 - May 2003

More viruses.

12.78 - April 2003

More viruses, better VBS detection, tools enhanced

12.75 - 13 Feb. 2003

More viruses added. Viren1x1 updated.

12.72 - 6 December 2002

More viruses added.

12.70 - 10 November 2002

More viruses added. Ported VirScan.doc to Windows format (Umlauts).
Added VirScan.PDF (replaces VirScan.doc). Created self installer for VSP.

12.69 - November 2002

More viruses added.

12.64 - August 2002

More viruses added.

12.63 - July 2002

More viruses.

12.60 - May 2002

Changed the format of VirScan.Trj - Added 110 new viruses.

12.50 - April 2002

Changed the signature file VirScan.VBS to VirScan.WSM. Added 170
viruses. Internal layout of the signature files (VirScan.*, better
compression) changed!

12.45x - April 2002

VBS.Trojan.Larirara removed. Added 400 viruses. English.pdf updated.

12.43x - Feb. 2002

English.pdf added. New viruses added.

12.417 - 21-Jan-2002

VSP is now available with an Windows 32 bit self installer.

12.412 - 14-Jan-2002

Changed a bit the version numbering system 12.412 instead of 12.41.2). New
viruses added. Added VirusDef.PDF (replaces ASCII version .DOC).

12.40.01 - 19-Dec-2001

New viruses (major: scripts). Release for VTC (12.34). Fixed a few false
positives (credits Veit & CyberRax). Changed a lot of the documentations.
Replaced VirusDef.doc with VirusDef.PDF

12.33.01 - 17-Nov-2001

New viruses.

12.32.01 - 06-Oct-2001

New viruses.

12.30.01 - 01-Aug-2001

New batch/mIRC scan engine added that uses the new external signature file
virscan.irc. Approx 300 new viruses added. '.LNK' as default extension added.
MBRKILL from the shareware distribution removed.

12.22.01 - 24-June-2001

Added approx. 200 VBS, JS, HTML, HLLx viruses and trojans.

12.21.01 - 09-June-2001

Added anti heuristic VBS detection. Approx 250 new viruses added.

12.20.01 - 10-May-2001

Up to 20% faster. New viruses added.

12.15.01 - 21-March-2001

Microsoft Encrypted Visual Basic on the fly decryption added. More than
100 new VBS viruses as well as generic VBS kit virus detection added.

12.10.01 - 06-Feb-2001

Due to the porting of F_Mirc to Linux the VBS and IRC routines had been
significant enhanced. New viruses. Faster scanning (requires 4 KB more
memory).

12.02.01 - 20-Oct-2000

New viruses :).  Added option /NOBOOT

12.00.01 - 22-July-2000

New viruses, added .VBA as default extension. Batch heuristic added.
Added options /NOHMA and /NOMEM

12.00.b2 - 03-July-2000

50% faster scanning, due to reprogramming the VBS/Mirc engines. New
viruses. Reduced memory usage for 15 KB.

12.00.b1 - 22-June-2000

Added VBS, IRC etc. detection from RHBVS

11.92.1 - 28-May-2000

New viruses added. A few FP fixed.

11.91.3 - 19-April-2000

Fixed a FP under NW-DOS. Added a bunch of trojans, so older VSP can not
handle the new VIRSCAN.TRJ anymore.

11.91.2 - 2-March-2000

New viruses, false positives fixed.

11.91.1 - 06-Feb-2000

"only" new viruses added

11.90.05 - 06-Dec-1999

Added Viren1x1.TXT from Michael Hering. New viruses (as usual).

11.90.04 - 30-Nov-1999

Key system change: Evaluation key is now stored into share.key instead
of rose.key.

11.90.01 - 11-Nov-1999

New scan engines, added more than 510 new viruses.

11.81.01 - 03-Oct-1999
11.77.01 - 27-June-1999
11.76.01 - 19-June-1999

New viruses.

11.75.01 - 16-May-1999

New viruses added. Released via mailing List.

11.73.02 - 26-Apr-1999

New viruses added. Released via VirNet.

11.73.01 - 11-Apr-1999

New viruses and trojans. Fixed and enhanced the Kaczor/Pieck routines.

11.72.04 - 04-Apr-1999

New viruses. Added some additional checks to the Live Bait Test.
VIRSCAN.TXT updated.

11.72.03 - 28-March-1999

Added a few new viruses.

11.72.01 - 03-March-1999

Added Suleiman.692 virus killer. Fix some false positives. Enhanced the
code analyzer to avoid false positives. Added new viruses.

11.71.06 - 19-Feb-1999

Fixed a few false positives. Added new viruses.

11.71.04 - 04-Jan-1999

Options /VTC and /ANALYSE added. Added new viruses. Enhanced the command
line handling. Enhanced the code analyser.

11.71.01 - 29-Dec-1998

New viruses and malware. ZooZip 1.40.02. Drive type is now displayed.

11.70.01 - 16-Dec-1998

Added new viruses. Fixed a few false positives. Updated the ITW list
with the results of the RIMC project (ROSE IRC malware collector).
Enhanced the generic detection (BW, VCL, PS-MPC, Mini/Tiny).

11.67.03 - 02-Dec-1998

Re-scanned my zoo and verified the detection rate. Added new viruses and
malware.

11.66.01 - 17-Nov-1998

Fixed some false positives, added new viruses and malware. ZooZip 1.30.01,
rFP2FP 0.60. Small enhancements

11.65.03 - 01-Nov-1998

Added four ITW viruses, added more than ten new viruses. ZooZip 1.20.03

11.65.02 - 27-Oct-1998

Fixed some false positives, added new viruses. Added cleaning routines
for 4 new Spanska and 3 new Neuroquila/Nightfall variants.


11.65.01 - 20-Oct-1998

Added more than 40 viruses and trojans. ZooZip 1.20.02 added.


11.64.02 - 10-Oct-1998

Improved: VSPZOO.BAT, MAKEBOOT.BAT, new virus strains.


11.64.01 - 26-Sept-1998

Added this file to the package. Improvements in the CRC32 and Path
companion routines. Added new viruses. Enhanced the ChkPC/HMS/VStop utilities.

\BETA directory contains new versions of ZOOZIP and RFP2FP utilities.

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Possible VSP Road map
---------------------

        2x.00 - Enhanced Database for Trojans and Signatures???

        1x.50 - Heuristic Win32 detection from PeHead

        1x.00 - Adding Win32 Trojan detection from RHBVS

        1x.50 - Cleanup of the database. Approx. 1600 signatures can be
                compressed into 1000 signatures, leaving more memory for
                further signatures.

        1x.00 - Adding the mIRC heuristics from F-Mirc & RHBVS

              - add. hash table for the Trojan detection

/* End */
