This project had started from a personal need: clean some viruses which virus scanners at the time didn't recognize on my computer. It's not data-driven which means it contains ad-hoc code for each and every virus it detects which I think are 8 viruses in total :) It wasn't the most sustainable AV project.
FatalVision UI:
FatalVision menu screenshot:
TurboVision UI:
The source code contains three variants:
- operator.pas: Old TurboVision based UI
- genav.pas: FatalVision based UI.
- avenger.pas: Command-line (which I think was the way to go, but I was too young to run away from the urge to code cool looking UIs)
Literal translation from the documentation:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ATB | COM+EXE files | A harmful virus that doesn't check for overlays |
| Mirage | COM+EXE files | A virus that is well-coded and well-harmful |
| X1 | COM+EXE files | Makes the date/times of the files invalid |
| X2 | COM+EXE files | Mirage variant but coded better |
| X3 | COM+EXE files | Written for deleting EXE files of some games |
| Cascade1661 | COM files | An interesting virus |
| Mumcu | COM files | Makes EXEs read-only |
Mostly for educational purposes. That is definitely not the right way to write a generic AV software. However, considering the requirements vs effort, I think I kept a good balance, and the software itself served me really well in its time.
There was much more advanced AV projects originated from Turkey such as ARA by Bulent Eren which was data-driven and contained heuristic scanners as well.