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`20.Aug.2001` BTTR-Team	Back to the Roots: Amiga-News 232 "Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) is far away from being dead. We are happy to announce that our traffic problems are fixed, as we now have a dedicated server in norway. A new problem which occured, ISDA the site terminators, tried to shut us down behind our back. We believe we fixed that issue, but unfortunately they don't have the culture to respond email communication they initiated themselves, so we decided to update and not let you all wait for them further. Read more about their attack on our news page. Two new companies are supporting our project. From Soft Enterprises we can offer you the addictive puzzle games "Brain Artifice" and "Cube-X". Nightmare Productions are the creators of the rpg game "Antares". Other new games are: The entire "Premier Manager" series, Venus the flytrap, Switchblade 2, Colossus Bridge X, Alien Syndrome and more. 60 new scene demos from groups like Fairlight, Haujobb, Scoopex, Ambrosia, Cocoon or The Black Lotus have been added, while 150 new brilliant scene and game pictures were included to our pics-archive. We're pleased to announce, that the famous games musician Andrew Barnabas has agreed to make his classic tunes (e.g. SWIV or Double Dragon III) available in our music section. And there are over 100 other new tunes from various composers ready for download. And last but not least we'd like to notify you about two new reviews of Melcom's great Audio CDs. Respects from yours Back to the Roots Team Bobic + Hippie2000 http://www.back2roots.org info@back2roots.org (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Nico Barbat (E-Mail)	Scenet event-calendar Due to the upcoming visit of the 100.000 visitors of Scenet, a online magazin and gateway for the os-independent computer demoscene, is proud to present a new area to you. Here you can find an up-to-date event-calendar containing details about more then 800 upcoming and past parties and exhibitions including reports and invitations. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Kickstart (ANF)	Game: New move for H2 Some weeks ago I discovered a new move in H2. I think that this one is not very well known out there. It is a Wirnelattack using the bladecrook. Just run and beat (you allready know this) and press one of the side-step keys at the same time. This looks realy cool :) P.S.: To enter the tubes in the swamp just go right and climb to the top of the liana. Turn right and jump onto the trees. Then walk to the end of the trees and use the bladecrook to jump in one of the tubes. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: New trojan 'Muahaha' A new trojan has been found today. The trojan will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file. This trojan is just like the that has found of the 15'th of August, named MZ-Makey trojan. But this trojan was found on Aminet, but removed now. This is what we know of the trojan: Virus Type.... : Trojan Trojan size... : 39.048 bytes Archive name.. : Muahaha.lha Archive size.. : 39.217 (lha packed) Archive info.. : Short: muahaha ss-intro Type : demo/mag Desc : a intro msg for the ppl interesed... >;) Thanks to 'JEO' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the test of the archive. (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 00:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Virus warning II Here we go again....... Yet, again another installer of the new virus 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00'. Again there is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected files, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. This installer will install the 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3748 bytes to every infected file, and place it self in memory, so you will have to watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it can get into. There is a way to see if the archive you download is an installer of this virus, all you have to do is to unpack the archive, read the file in an text editor (eg. CygnusEd), and search for this text string in the code (THIS IS ONLY FOR THE INSTALLER): -=COVAH=- If you find -=COVAH=- in the code, that is an installer of this virus then please send he archive to us. The virus size has change this time, now it is 3748 bytes. In the code (decoded), you can read: Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00) Featuring the Hitcher's Advanced Versatile Optimizing Codemix Engine A welcome present for Jan Erik by xxxxxx/xxx! -= On Tour 1995-2001 =- (VHT-Denmark removed the names of the programmer handle, and replaced it with 'xxxxxx') If this is a welcome present for Jan Erik Olausen, the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, I think that he would rather have a cold beer. But he will surely put recog. for Hitch-Hiker 5.00 in the new update of xvs.library... The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but it has been removed now. (Thanks Urban). This is what we know of the virus: Virus Type.... : Linkvirus Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium) Virus size.... : 3748 bytes Archive name.. : S-Exec12.lha Archive size.. : 9.905 bytes (lha packed) Installer name : LibBase3.10 Installer size : S-Exec Archive info.. : Compress executables. There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus out there, we have found 3 archive in 2 days. If you find anything please send it to us. The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as soon as possible. In the mean time, take care... Thanks to D. Olsen for the info about the archive and to Ronald Dijk for sending the archive to us. (ps) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 00:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)	Elbox explains their price policy for driver software As already reported, Elbox has announced on the 16.08.2001 a CD with driver software you have to pay for. This has led to big and extensive discussions. In the following email Elbox explains their price policy: ELBOX Computer explains its policy about driver pricing 1. The purpose of MEDIATOR To ENABLE the POSSIBILITY of using a wide range of standard PCI cards. 'The MEDIATOR PCI busboard line is designed to enable expanding the Amiga with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards, ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders. Expanding the Amiga with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard opens the way to employing the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors in Amiga, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based.' However, it does not mean that we will prepare ALL the possible drivers for ALL the possible devices and their different versions. We want to enhance Amiga's effectiveness and give Amiga community access to low-cost, good and widely-available PCI cards. As a starter, we have included some drivers in the initial pack of the Mediator busboard: PCI Graphic cards: Voodoo5 5500 64MB, Voodoo4 4500 32MB, Voodoo3 3000 16MB, Voodoo3 2000 16MB, Voodoo Banshee 16 MB, S3 ViRGE 86C325 2MB, S3 ViRGE 86C325 4MB, S3 ViRGE/DX 86C375 2MB, S3 ViRGE/DX 86C375 4MB PCI Ethernet cards: Winbond 89C940F, RealTek RTL-8029, NetVin NV5000S.C., Holtek HT80232, Holtek HT80229, Compex RL2000, SureCom NE34, KTI ET32P2, Via 86C926. These drivers have never been free. Their price was included in the original design costs. New drivers have to be calculated separately because... 2. No commercial software is free Writing good and versatile software (e.g. Mediator drivers) requires time and effort, which ultimately means programmers have to receive good salaries. If users want to be supported in the long run by any company, they have to pay for its products. Money collected allows generating new ideas, new designs and new products. 3. Free alternative approach (which we do NOT follow) Yes, we could offer software for free. We could have bought hundreds of old-fashioned PCI sound cards just a few Mark per piece (like e.g. SB Pro). Then we could write drivers to this specific batch of cards. Easy way, supporting one chipset, one specific card, branded with our name and marketed as unique. As these cards would be unique, they would have to priced high enough, say at DM 100. With "free" drivers, of course. What's the result? You would buy an OUTDATED low-featured no-longer-supported card, paying mega-bucks not for the card but for quick software and huge extra profits for the "manufacturer." 4. Instead we give... RESPECT. The basic rule with Elbox is that we FIRST develop, design and test and only when everything is ready and in the final stage do we announce new products. In other words, we take the risk and full cost of the designing stage. We do not demand from users making pre-payments, placing pre-orders, etc. In other words, we respect the users as full-scale Customers, who deserve to be offered a final-stage product to choose whether to take it or not, depending on their needs. Another basic rule for us is that we prepare universal drivers, i.e. drivers supporting various chipsets. This ensures faulty-free support for many different versions of the same card. Writing software with this prerequisite in mind takes much more time and tests than writing drivers for one specific chipset/card. But what we offer is UNIVERSALITY and PERFORMANCE. Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 19:08] [Comments: 1 - 21. Aug. 2001, 00:05] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (email)	Virus Help Denmark: virus warning! We have found another the installer of the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' linkvirus. Again there is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected files, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. The 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3732 bytes to every infected file, and place it self in memory, so you will have to watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it can get into. Again I ran a test on my A1200 and it infected will over 400 files, in under 3 minutes. There is a way to see if the archive you download is an installer of this virus, all you have to do is to unpack the archive, read the file in an texteditor (eg. CygnusEd), and search for this text string in the code (THIS IS ONLY FOR THE INSTALLER): -=COVAH=- If you find -=COVAH=- in the code, that is an installer of this virus then please send the archive to us. The virus size has change this time, now it is 3720 bytes. That tells us that the virus uses polymorph routine, that means that the virus can change in size. This virus comes from Poland again, just like the other viruses that we have found in the last 6 month. But why don't you guy's program something usefull, that everyone can enjoy? In the code (decoded), you can read: Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00) Featuring the 1's Advanced V8sA Op'miz Code A welcom user of VRU! -= 1995-2 =- -= HAVOC =- The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but it has been removed now. (Thanks Urban). This is what we know of the virus: Virus Type.... : Linkvirus Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium) Virus size.... : 3720 bytes Archive name.. : LibBase310.lha Archive size.. : 47.711 bytes (lha packed) Installer name : LibBase3.10 Installer size : 42.304 bytes Archive info.. : Scans Memory for Libs/Tasks etc There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus out there, today we found 2 archives. If you find anything please send it to us. The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as soon as possible. In the mean time, take care... Thanks to Petra Struck & Alfred, for sending the archive to us. Editorial: As the system of Alfred Sturm, who's responsible for the Aminet uploads here at amiga-news.de, has been infected yesterday with this aggressive virus through installing LibBase310.lha and trying it there'll be no updates of the Aminet uploads in the near future. The virus has unfortunately not only infected his main partition but also the partition with his backup. Some infected files are even not deleteable. He's now forced to install his system from scratch. This may take a while as laboriously self written scripts have passed away and everything has to be collected together again. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 11:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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