18.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (email)
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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)
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17.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Game: New Freeciv version
The new Freeciv version has just been released. It is now based on version 1.12.0.
Freeciv is a free Civilization clone which can be played on the internet with
multiple players or alone against the computer.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Petr Krenzelok (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: Virtual Office Project
On August 16th 2001 Petr Krenzelok has released screenshots and some information
on Etienne Alaurent's 'Virtual Office Project'.
The aim of this software is a personal virtual bureau which is accessible from
everywhere in the world through the internet. In this bureau people can use
certain rooms and areas together and thus share information and data.
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Hitch-Hiker v5.00 linkvirus found
We have found the installer of the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' linkvirus.
There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected
files, but 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 itself in memory, so you will have to
watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it
can get into. And on my test A1200 over 400 files were infected in
under 3 minutes.
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 guys program
something useful 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 we stopped the archive before
it got online for reel. (Thanks Urban).
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium)
Virus size.... : 3732 bytes
Archive name.. : WBCycle21.lha
Archive size.. : 25.818 bytes (lha packed)
Installer name : WBCycle
Installer size : 22.756 bytes
Archive info.. : Cycles a single WB colour to pretty up Windows.
This is a fake archive. The programmer of 'WBCycle', Steve Hargreaves
has not released an update of WBCycle since v1.0.
There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus
out there. 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 meantime, take care ...
Thanks to Thomas Klein for sending the archive to us.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - update announcement and news
There are some news on the popular astronomy program Digital Almanac III: in the
next time (very vague - summer holidays, vacation!) there'll be a new update. Due
to the many new features it will become version 4.0. Here is an overview of the
most important changes.
Bugfixes:
- 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 features:
- 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).
Because of the many changes the update archive will be several MByte in size. Alternately
the update can be ordered for a small contribution towards expenses directly from Achim
Stegemann. The CD contains not only the update but also big textures as well as numerous
new pictures for your image collection.
More news:
Currently an OpenGL output (through StormMesa and Warp3D) is being worked on. This is
purely experimental though, and it is not certain whether Achim Stegemann will have the
time to complete it.
A GL version would speed up the graphics output, especially textures, considerably.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads
AMINET was down for a week - that's why there haven't been new uploads before today.
(as)
Update 18.08.2001:
The Aminet was not down. The HD from ´wustl´ was full. Therefore new uploads weren´t possible.
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 (ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Mailbox: Uphold The Law BBS online again!
The pure demoscene BBS "Uphold The Law" is after two days delay
and the restoration of the destroyed user data online again.
Especially a lot of German callers who had seen the IP in the
Amiga News asked for access to the illegal areas of the mailbox.
Those don't exist here, and they will never exist! Those looking
for pirated software or not willing to leave their phone number
can save the effort asking. With the private phone number, the
sysop tries to protect himself from anonymous crackers.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: Review of the ArtEffect Plug-In CD-ROM and more
At the GFX-BASE you can read a review of the newly released plug-in CD-ROM
for ArtEffect. We have taken a look at the new possibilities, describe the
installation and the use of the plug-ins in practice (including a hint for
WinUAE users).
There have been other changes to the GFX-BASE as well: it's now possible to
search through our news archive and all tutorials published so far were
translated into French by our new member, Alexandre Balaban.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Darkage Software
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Darkage Software website with new layout
The Italian software developers Darkage, known for games such as
'Tales from Heaven' and the 'Amiga Classix' CDs have entirely redesigned
their website and updated the product pages at the same time.
There are some first screenshots of 'Supreme', the new Amiga video titling
program which is scheduled for release in September.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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16.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.29
xvs.library, an external library for virus checkers, was updated.
For example this library is used by VirusExecutor, VirusChecker, VirusZ, and
Safe to discover viruses.
More details:
News for 33.29:
- 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
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Aug.2001
Telemar (ANF)
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Tip for Monzoom users and raytracers
To all who use the raytracing software Monzoom. The site
'3dlinks.com' is for rendering people what amiga-news for Amiga information is.
Free objects, textures, etc., etc..., drop by.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus: New Trojan virus found
A new trojan has been found today. This trojan says that it will make
a key-file that will work with over 250 programs. Well, I guess that
there are someone that will fall for this kind of program. The trojan
will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file, in
your S:, Libs:, Devs: and L:.
This is what we know of the trojan:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name... : MZ-MAKEY trojan
Trojan size... : 34.548 bytes (packed with StoneCracker)
Trojan size... : ? (we have not been able to unpack the file)
Archive name.. : MZ-MAKEY.lha
Archive size.. : 34.734 bytes (lha packed)
Archive info.. :
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
Master Key Generator!
=====================
make keys for all
programs you want
100% tested with more
of 250 programs!
xxxxx
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
(VHT-DK has removed the name and replaced it with 'xxxxxxxxx')
Don't trust programs like this, use your common sense before you
try stupid programs like this.......
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Golds' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the
test of the archive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2001
Colin Hirsch (ANF)
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Individual Computers "Offline"
Jens Schönfeld, known to many Amiga freaks by his "Individual Computers" company,
was involved to a serious road accident, this morning.
It is to expect that support questions, etc. will not be replied for some days or weeks.
After convalesce he will report his return himself, which hopefully will be soon.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Aug.2001
SixK
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Database: MySQL for Amiga Version 3.23.41
On the French website 'SixK' you will find the AmigaOS port of the MySQL
database system v3.23.41, compiled for 68040 CPUs. History details are to find
under the title link.
Download: MySqld_3.23.41_040.lzx
(ps)
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16.Aug.2001
Schatztruhe
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Schatztruhe: Aminet CD 44 - 08/2001
The Aminet CD 44 - August 2001 - contains over 1 GB (unpacked) of software in
more than 650 archives. Since the Aminet CD 43 more than 900 MB of innovations
have been added. The full version of the game Genetic Species is the highlight of
Aminet 44.
(ps)
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16.Aug.2001
ELBOX Computer
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ELBOX: Sound & TV in Mediator PCI
ELBOX Computer released sound and TV board drivers for the Mediator
PCI board on a CD named 'Mediator Multimedia CD'.
Some details:
This CD has been prepared to provide you with the selection of
drivers for PCI sound cards, TV tuner cards and graphic cards for
Mediator PCI busboards for Amiga 4000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga
1200 computers.
The basic features of the Sound, TV & Graphic drivers:
- 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.
TV tuner drivers:
- 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.
Graphic drivers:
- 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.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Aug.2001
Thomas 'Gojira' Nosutta (ANF)
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Gallery: "My Computer @ Home" at ACBB
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
From now on in our web-gallery we will publish pictures of computers of
users under the motto 'My Computer @ Home'. If you want to eternalize
your computer there then you only have to send your pictures to nosutta@web.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus: New Trojan found
A new trojan has been found today. This trojan says that it will make
a key-file that will work with over 250 programs. Well, I guess that
there are someone that will fall for this kind of program. The trojan
will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file, in
your S:, Libs:, Devs: and L:.
This is what we know of the trojan:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name... : MZ-MAKEY trojan
Trojan size... : 34.548 bytes (packed with StoneCracker)
Trojan size... : ? (we have not been able to unpack the file)
Archive name.. : MZ-MAKEY.lha
Archive size.. : 34.734 bytes (lha packed)
Archive info.. :
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
Master Key Generator!
=====================
make keys for all
programs you want
100% tested with more
of 250 programs!
xxxxx
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
(VHT-DK has removed the name and replaced it with 'xxxxxxxxx')
Don't trust programs like this, use your common sense before you
try stupid programs like this.......
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Golds' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the
test of the archive.
(ps)
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15.Aug.2001
Bernd Bernie Meyer (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Today UAE-Jit celebrates 1. anniversary
Today Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer writes on c.s.a.m.:
I did not want to elapse the anniversary completely unnoticed...Today it is one year ago when I announced the very first, slow and rather hacked version of UAE-JIT on comp.sys.amiga.misc which additionally was very bugy. You can find the original posting on Google.
What a year...
Celebrating the day I have composed a site with Amithlon-benchmarks.
It is very interesting to compare the amounts of that time with the ones of today. Now the Celeron333 is a pure developing computer which works under the Celeron566 in the computer room via M-JPEG-Card as a video recorder and therefore I could unfortunately not use both computers for benchmarking...
Take the champagne, celebrate and a threefold hurrah for UAE-JIT...
Bernie
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Maarten Koopmans (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: Rugby 4 (Request Broker)
Maarten Koopmans and Ernie van der Meer have published the Requester
Broker 'Rugby 4' for REBOL-System.
With 'Rugby 4' you can send requests (messages) to other REBOL-processes
which sends back a result (LDC: Lightweight Distributed Computing). The
processes may run on a local computer or on a computer in the Internet.
The communication can be done encoded. Compared with the last version the following things have changed:
- 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)
Download: rugby4u.tar.gz
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Heise [Newsticker] / Volker Grabbe (ANF)
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Heise: SIGGRAPH: Khronos Group introduces OpenML 1.0
As an addition to OpenGL-API OpenML is supposed to set up a platform undependable standard for multimedia-applications with graphic-, audio- and video-data.
You can read the full article under the title link.
Currently in Los Angeles the SIGGRAPH takes place. The Khronos Group which is an industry-association consisting of several graphic companies has published the specifications of OpenML 1.0 there.
Another link to this topic:
Heise: SIGGRAPH: New specification for OpenGL
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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