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                     ROSE SWE Virus Collectors Toolset/Toolbox

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Q: Why is this package re-packed with RAR?
A: I decided to repack the package with WinRAR 3.0, 4 MB dictionary size
and solid packing to reduce the package from 807 KB (ZIP 2.0 format) to
573 KB (RAR). If you are not able to unpack RAR 3.00 archives, then this
package is ABSOLUTE NOT for you intended! Please do not distribute
unpacked versions of RVCT.

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05.08.2003   05a	Pre-Release without VK_TRASH
03.08.2003   05		Updated: rfw, vk_trash, rosegoat etc.
			Release WITHOUT the vk_trash database!

23.06.2003   04		Added: VirSort.Win32
			Updated: zoozip, k_goat, vk_trash

15.04.2003   03		Added URLs
			Updated RoseGoat 2.17, rfp2fp, zoozip, rfc
				KillGoat+rzoosort, VirSort32

21.07.2002   02		Updated: rfc, ZooZip, rfp2fp, rfw32, rfwfaq.txt, KillGoat
			Moved:   rfw database, rfwfaq.txt, vk_trash.txt, KillGoat
			Added:   RFW Fakes, Trash and Bait/Goat database, ZooZip.pas, rfp2fp

16.07.2002   01b   	Initial web release.
11.07.2002   01a   	Initial preview release.

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Short description by CodeWarrior, edited by ROSE SWE

ROSE SWE Virus Collection Tools (RVCT) is a big collection of useful tools
and scripts for Virus Collecting and Trading.  It is written and plugged
together by ROSE SWE

It contains .Bat files for all of its console based Tools to make the
handling of them easier.  It also contains .Bat files to lunch different
Virus Scanners which makes scanning of collections more easy.

RVCT contains tools like a GOAT Killer, a very good file weeder, different
goat files, a fake and trash scanner, and a virus sorting utility.  Those
tools are written in Pascal mainly, some parts are written in ASM (like the
goats).

VirSort
Christian Julius is the father of the virus sorting tool called VirSort.
Many people believe Jim Fougeron was the initial coder of the tool due he
popularized the tool in the past, being his VirSort 5.0.0b used by all
virus collectors for a large period.

VirSort has been developed at some point of its history by Christian
Julius, Brian Burdick (ShadSeek), Jim Fougeron (Poltergeist), Ralph Roth
and VirusBuster.  SPo0ky and Horny Toad received VirSort 5.0.0b source code
from Jim Fougeron in order to continue developing the tool back in 1998.
But they never did it, so due this cause Brian Burdick started a new
version under the name of VirSort 2000, but he stopped updates soon, taking
the torch VirusBuster, who is actual developer of VS2000 since 1999.
Meanwhile the VirSort 5.0.x sources seems to be extinct.

This is a modified Version of Christian Julius Source code done by ROSE
SWE.  Its able to handle VirScan Plus, RHBVS, Dr-Web, AVG, F-Prot, AVP and
TScan logs.

You can find more information in its README!

RoseGoat
RoseGoat is a tool to create goat files.  Its able to generate lots of
different goat files.  RoseGoat also has selfchecking goats and goats for
lots of different file types.

Rose File Weeder (RFW)
RFW is an utility to weed out duplicate files.  Virus researchers often
receive large virus collections that contain many duplicate files.  Not all
anti-virus vendors use the same virus naming convention, and often a virus
sample is renamed to match to the name printed by the scanner used to
identify the virus.  These renamed files are copied into other collections,
causing many renamed but equal files floating around in all kind of virus
collections.  Furthermore RFW can be used to weed out duplicate assembler
files, your JPG/MP3 collection :-))) etc.  See option /ALL.  Files with
size zero bytes are by default included into the database and will be
deleted when running RFW with option /Del!

RFW helps you to identify duplicate files and can automatically delete
them.  Duplicate files are files with the same 32-bit CRCs and length.  RFW
can also maintains a database so it is not necessary to re-scan all files
over and over again to search for duplicates.

You can find more information in its README!


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