
                              V I R S O R T  1.1 beta


Why you need Virsort ?

You collect virii and the collection growed up to a few thousand samples
and each week you get another few hundred samples?
Than you have the problem to analyse and sort them into directories
spending hours while doing do.
VIRSORT takes this work away from you. It analyzes a scan list from the popular
anti-virus program F-Prot by Fridrik Skulason and compares the incoming
virii against your own. After doing so it sorts out the dupes and copies the
new virii in separate directories.

How to use:

1. Make an F-Prot list of your virii and don't forget to add the /nowrap
   command line parameter.
2. Copy this list in the same directory as virsort.exe
3. Type virsort -b <fprot.list> to create a database and you'll get some
   few files:

   virsort.dat = The database
   unsort.log  = Suspicious files not identified 100% (sort them in
                 manually
   new_vir.log = The new virii
   trojans.log = Trojan horses
   variants.log = New or modified virii
   possible.log = Possibly infected files

4. Type in virsort -s <database> <target-directory> <- no backslash at
   the end and virsort will create new directories and copies the viruses
   into them.

   You can use the -sd switch instead to move the files into the target
   directory, othwise they'll be copied.
   Note: The dupes are not removed. I'll fix this in future versions of
   my software.

5. You get a new collection?
   Make a F-Prot file and type
   virsort -c <new-fprot-log> <output-file>

   The output file contains the new virii list in binary format.
   Go to step 4 to sort them in.

   Virsort asks you for updating your database now.
   If you type 'y' the incoming virii are added to your database
   and the old database is deleted.

I can't garantee that there are no bugs in it, if you recognize some
please let me know.
This software is published as Public Domain, so you can spread it to
everybody who wants it, but you are not allowed to take a fee for it.
Further and improved versions will be published as Shareware.

Please apologize any spelling mistakes.

Christian Julius
Germany
email: chj@ing.ruhr.de

