= MPScan

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== About MPScan

MPScan is a evry fast command line virus scanner for Windows and Linux searching
for DOS boot viruses, DOS memory resident viruses, multipartite DOS viruses as
well as MPScan can also detect some standard DOS viruses.

== Why MPScan?

This program was developed as a proof of concept and release as Freeware to get
feedback on detection, user experience, bugs and possible false positives.

== Heuristic Detection?

Beside viruses already known, MPScan uses fully heuristic detection and a
database (virscan.mpv) with known signatures matching these heuristic detection.

So MPScan is able to even find new, yet unclassified viruses e.g. in large virus
collections.

=== What is Heuristic?

In computer science, a heuristic is a technique designed to solve a problem
that ignores whether the solution can be proven to be correct, but which
usually produces a good solution or solves a simpler problem that contains or
intersects with the solution of the more complex problem.

Heuristics are intended to gain computational performance or conceptual
simplicity potentially at the cost of accuracy or precision.

== Detection Rate?

As said MPScan is not a fully virus scanner and therefore can not have 100%
detection rates. But our internal tests are very promising so we decided to
dig deeper into this approach of scanner technology.

=== Current scan results

Tests against a larger unique virus collection.

  MPScan
  Version  [Date]       Collection (unique, different viruses)
  1.02.339 [12.01.2021] 58.406 files checked. 1.976 MB scanned. 20.697 suspicious

== History

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1.02  [12.01.2021]  Initial public release
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== License

NOTE: RHBVS is distributed as AnyWare. That means, the author (ROSE SWE) holds
the full copyright on the program and documentation. The usage of the program
is for free (just like Freeware).

If you find this program useful and you want to see it improved just send me
anything you think could be helpful, that means Email, viruses, bug, reports
or even money ....  :-)

== Copyright

(C)opyright by

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    ROSE SWE                           See ROSEBBS.TXT for
    Dipl.-Ing. Ralph Roth              full address, FAX and PGP keys.
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== End

End of the documentation! Thank you for reading it.  Bye!
