Credits
PART III
THE ULTIMATE VIRUS KILLER BOOK APPENDICES
CREDITS
This book nor the accompanying program in its current setup
would have been able to arise from the darkest pits of my brain
without the help of quite a lot of people.
I would like to extend thanks to the following people for, in
some way or another, assisting on the technical or sheer
inspirational/friendly side at some stage during the writing of
the program and the book (in alphabetical order)...
Gard Eggesbø Abrahamsen, Henrik "Sagrotan / ToXis" Alt, Bernhard
"Security Kit / Poison!" Artz and Delta Lab Software, H.W.A.M. de
Beer (authors of "SysInfo", who wrote the memory check routine in
the "Ultimate Virus Killer"), Michael "TNT Crew" Bittner (who
wrote the undocumented reset resistant check routine), Claus
"Scheibenkleister" Brod, Chris "Sircware" Brookes, Gregor
Duchalski (author of the "Flydials" GEM routines library),
Stephan "The Answer is 42" Englhart, Carsten "Antibiotikum /
Virentod" Frischkorn, Robert "STRIKE-a-LIGHT" Heessels, Eerk
Hofmeester, Dan Hollis, Kai "Antidote" Holst, Jurie Horneman(n),
Arjen "ADJ" de Jong, Christian "TNT" Jungen, Wilfred Kilwinger
(ex-Atari Benelux Software Support), Katja Kladnik, Jeff Lawson
(Eigen Software), Filipe Martins (who harrassed me for two years
so I would finally make the "Ultimate Virus Killer" capable of
true multi-tasking), Mark Matts (for a lot of initial help on the
GEM programming side of things), Mike "PVK" Mee, Helmut
"AntiVirus" Neukirchen, Torbjørn "Lord HackBear" Ose (who wrote
the "VKILLER.CPX" module), Matej Pokorn, Stefan "Digital
Insanity" Posthuma (who wrote the Partition Scan Code, various
other small bits and, of course, most of the user interface of
this on disk version), Fred Schuit, Klaus "KRS" Seligmann, Volker
"Virendetektor" Söhnitz, Guus Surtel, Harald Ünzelmann
(Ariola/United Software), Alexander "Bonus" de Vries, Adrie van
der Weijden, Martijn "Lucifer" Wiedijk, George "VKiller" Woodside
(and family), Piet van Zanten and my dear friend Frank "Antiware"
Lemmen.
There have been people who wrote in just to tell me I'm doing a
good job for the honest guys out there. Thanks to you lot(s)!
There are many of you, of whom I'd nonetheless like to mention
G.T. Blackford specifically. You make everyday virus killing life
worth coping with.
Special thanks need to go to Mr. Frank Heinzmann and Gabriele
Derr of Expert Informatik, West Germany, who supplied me with
lots of data on MS-DOS viruses.
Other thanks, mainly due to inspiration and general all-except-
technical support, also needs to be given. It goes to...
Authors: Douglas Adams, Clive Barker, Robert T. Bakker, Roald
Dahl, Stephen Donaldson, Rob Grant, Joseph Heller, Tracy Hickman,
Guy Favriel Kay, Stephen King (!), H.P. Lovecraft, Julian May,
Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock, Doug Naylor, George Orwell,
Terry Pratchett (!), Tom Sharpe, Donna Tartt, J.R.R. Tolkien and
Margaret Weis.
Films: "Abyss", "Alien", "Aliens", "Backdraft", "Blade Runner",
"Blues Brothers", "Brazil", "Cliff Hanger", "Dances with Wolves",
"Dead Poets Society", "Die Hard", "Die Hard II", "Die Hard with a
Vengeance", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The Fugitive",
"Hellraiser", "Jurassic Park", "Little Shop of Horrors", "The
Mask", "Naked Gun", "Oliver!", "The Piano", "Pulp Fiction",
"Scrooged", "Seven", "The Silence of the Lambs", "Speed",
"Terminator II", "Top Secret", "Total Recall", "True Lies",
"Twelve Monkeys", "Twister", "Wayne's World" and literally any
Walt Disney classic or full-length animated film (most recently
"Aladdin" and "The Lion King").
TV: "Absolutely Fabulous", "Beverly Hills 90210" (?!), "Birds of
a Feather", "A Bit of Fry & Laury", "Blackadder" (any of the
series), "B.L. Stryker", "Bottom", "Duckman", "Family Dog",
"Fawlty Towers", "French & Saunders", "Goede Tijden Slechte
Tijden" (a Dutch soap, my one biggest weakness), "Jeeves and
Wooster", "Married with Children", "Monty Python's Flying
Circus", "Mr Bean", "The O.J. Simpson Trial" (not!), "Whoops!",
"Police Squad", "Red Dwarf" and "Twin Peaks".
Games: "Blood Money", "Bubble Bobble", "Formula One Grand Prix",
"Geneticopoly", "Gods", "Gridrunner", "Lemmings" (any version),
"Lethal XCess", "Llamatron" & "Llamazap" (Yak the Hairy rules
OK!), "Magic Pockets", "Obsession", "Plutos", "Premium Mah
Jongg", "Starball ES", "Super Sprint", "Triple Yahoo" and two
goldien oldies, "Mudpies" and "Time Bandit". On the Commodore 64
I was always rather partial to "Lode Runner" (any version), on
the Gameboy to "Super Mario Land II" and "Tetris", and on the
Lynx to "Chip's Challenge" and "California Games". If I had a
Jaguar I have a gut feeling "Tempest 2000" would be here too (and
"Defender 2000" soon!).
Drinks: Pickwick Tea, Plantiac Vieux (Dutch brandy) and Muier
Schipper Bitter.
Music: Altar, Amorphis, Tori Amos, Anathema, At the Gates, Jason
Becker, Björk, Black Sabbath, Kate Bush, Cacophony, Mariah Carey,
Dark Tranquillity, Deep Purple, Destruction, Dire Straits, Dream
Theater (!), Elend, Entombed, Mads Eriksen, Enya, Faith no More,
Fates Warning, Fear of God, Gandalf, The Gathering, Gwar,
Hellhammer, Jimi Hendrix, Gustav Holst, Iron Maiden, Jean Michel
Jarre, King Diamond, Kreator, Led Zeppelin, Living Colour, Yngwie
J. Malmsteen, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Metal Church, Metallica,
My Dying Bride, Napalm Death, Nightfall, Obituary, Orphanage,
Orphaned Land, Pan-Thy-Monium, Paradise Lost, Pentagram,
Phlebotomized, Queensrÿche, Rainbow, Rush, Joe Satriani, Septic
Flesh (!), Sepultura, Ship of Fools, Slayer, Sodom, Bernd Steidl,
Igor Stravinksy, Peter Tchaikovsky, Theatre of Tragedy,
Tristitia, Steve Vai, Vangelis, Van Halen, Vendetta, Venom and
Whistler Courbois Whistler.
Utilities (stuff I unquestioningly endorse): "1st Word Plus"
(...), "Atomic", "Backup Destruction Utility", "Backward",
"BlowUp 030", "Diamond Edge", "ERGO!pro", "FastCopy", "Freedom",
"Geneva", "GfA Basic" (of course!), "Interface", "Kobold 2.5",
"Ledpanel", "Mutil", "NeoDesk 4", "PA Pack", "Revenge Doc
Displayer", "ST Zip", "Superbase Professional" and "X-Boot".
Very ultra special thanks go to Les Ellingham ("Page 6/New Atari
User") for starting it all a long time ago (1988 somewhere), and
Niall McKiernon (Douglas Communications) for everything after
that. And, of course, thanks to Compo Software GmbH / CompoScan
S.A.R.L (hi Theo!) and to the ACN (hi Marc, Willem, Hennie, Puk
and Paul!).
I would also like to mention Andreas Ramos who, with "Your
Second Manual", proved that non-middle-of-the-road computer books
are also worth writing!
