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                               System Boot Areas
                                   Antivirus

                                  Version 3.02
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                     Copyright (C) 1996-97 by Nicola Ferri



Topics:

1) What is SBABR ?
2) Version 3.02 installation
3) Status
4) End notes
5) Contacting the Author


1) WHAT IS SBABR ?


SBABR  is  a  fast  100% assembly Antivirus to intercept and remove all the
boot viruses that might infect your system, and an anti-crash utility  that
will save hours of work in case of a system failure.

SBABR  makes  the  backups  of  all your computer system areas and performs
several integrity tests in order to protect your machine:

Floppy Boot Sector     Back up/Restore
Hard Disk Boot Sector  Back up/Restore
MBR (Partition)        Back up/Restore
CMOS Data              Back up/Restore
Track Zero             Back up/Restore

At boot up, SBABR performs its integrity tests: MBR (Drives C: and D: where
D: is a second optional physical drive) Boot Sector, Track Zero,  CMOS  and
Memory  are  carefully examined and any boot virus that could have infected
your system is detected.  No  way  for  the  virus  to  escape:  the  SBABR
integrity tests are a trap against known and unknown boot viruses.

SBABR  performs the integrity tests at every computer startup, but it's not
TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) so it won't use system memory  and  won't
create any conflict with TSR applications.

SBABR is also an MBR/Boot Sector viewer, decryptor, system cleaner and much
more. Please refer to the internal documentation for details.


2) VERSION 3.02 INSTALLATION


This  new  version  3.02  provides  an  automatic  Setup  utility that will
configure everything for you. If you're upgrading from a  previous  version
remove from the AUTOEXEC.BAT the string to execute SbaBoot since Setup will
add it automatically.

The following is the step by step explanation to install SBABR using the
automatic Setup:

A) Quit Windows and exit to DOS, or open a DOS shell under Windows.

B) Run INSTALL.EXE, it will uncompress the software on your drive.
   The default installation directory C:\SBABR is displayed, press <return>
   to  accept. If you prefer a different installation directory simply type
   in the new path.
   If you're upgrading from a previous version you can install version 3.02
   to the same SBABR directory: the new files will overwrite the old ones.

   Note: version 3.02 executables have been turned into EXE  files.  Remove
         all  the *.COM files from the SBABR directory if  you're upgrading
         from a previous version.

C) The software is now unpacked on your drive,  a  blue  screen  with  some
   usage guidelines is now displayed. Press ESC to quit the document.

D) Now  you're prompted to press <return> to start SBABR or ESC to quit  to
   DOS.  Press  <return>  and  the SBABR Launcher will be executed: it will
   detect a non complete SBABR installation and prompt you to continue.
   Press Y (upper or lowercase doesn't matter) to continue.

E) Now type 'setup' (without quotes) to run the automatic Setup utility.

SBABR is now correctly installed and it's ready to protect your system.



3) STATUS


SBABR 3.02 is released as SHAREWARE. It is not Freeware or Public Domain.
SBABR is Copyright (C) 1996-97 by Nicola Ferri.

You may use this shareware copy for an evaluation period up to 30  days  in
order  to determine whether the program meets your needs before registering
it. Once the evaluation period  ends  you  agree  to  either  register  the
program or to stop using it.

You  may make copies of the Shareware version to give to others (ftp sites,
bbs', friends etc..) as long as you distribute the  unaltered  archive  you
originally received. No version renumeration may be accepted.

Please refer to:

LICENCE.TXT......Licence Terms and Conditions
REGISTER.TXT.....How to Register
WHATUGET.TXT.....What you get when you register the program


4) END NOTES


SBABR  version 3.02 uses a different format to store the CMOS data. Nothing
is different for the end user, but for internal analysis a  new  format  is
now  used.  If  you're  upgrading from version 2.11 or earlier releases you
must must refresh your CMOS backup either on the hard drive and on  floppy:
the  programs  now  need  a  file produced by version 3.01 or above to work
correctly.

All the documentation  files  as  well  as  the  programs  are  inside  the
compressed  archive.  Run  INSTALL.EXE  to uncompress the package. The main
files that you ought to read are:

MANUAL.PDF..........SBABR User Manual (Adobe Acrobat Reader format)
SBABR.DOC...........SBABR User Manual (ASCII)
INSTALL.DOC.........Installation instruction

Some of the most important topics can be found as separate ASCII files.



5) CONTACTING THE AUTHOR


Nicola Ferri
n.ferri@agora.stm.it

SBABR Homepage (Main site, see internal documentation for mirrors):
http://www.ulisse.it/~mailand/sbabr.htm


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