----------------------------------------------------------------- Remove-it v0.01á by Jugler [FATE] ----------------------------------------------------------------- A. Introduction and purpose. This utility was created to help get rid of wierd, totally unnessecary file advertisments (hereafter 'ADS') of sorts. Of course, programs that remove ads do exist, but they are most rarely efficent against the 'new generation' of ads : random ads. Those are ads which are regular ads processed by programs that renames them, changes thier CRC and so on. How can one get rid of those so-called unremovable ads? One have to use (da da da ta) REMOVE-IT! REMOVE-IT is very simple. It scans the last 1 kilobyte of any file in a specified directory for a signiture. A signiture is usually the last line of the processed ad, like 'Processed by the AD Processor by Jugler'. It lists all those programs and make their removal easy. B. Usage. NOTE - REMOVEIT.EXE does NOT remove ANYTHING! It just LISTs ad files. Syntax : REMOVEIT sigfile.txt adlist.txt dir sigfile.txt - A text file containing all processor signitures to scan for. adlist.txt - The result list filename in which all ads will be listed dir - Directory to scan Since I could never fit REMOVEIT to support ALL the archive formats, I made it only to list the ads. The user should take care of 1. Opening the archive. 2. Running REMOVEIT. 3. Deleting the extracted files 4. Deleting the ads from the archive. As an example, I have included batchs file to do the above written to ZIP and ARJ files. Just run : REMOVE.BAT arcfile.ext sigfile.ext [adnames.ext] and that should do the trick. Note : adnames.txt is a file with all ads you want to remove that are the usual not-random ads. Just to save some work running tons of removers, I added this. C. Disclamiar I don't know what can go wrong, but the last time I said that I lost my entire HD's contents. So : THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE TO ANY DAMAGE OR ANYTHING ELSE CAUSED BY THIS UTILITY, BY ITS USE OR BY ITS MISUSE. also THIS UTILITY IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. THAT MEANS YOU CAN SPREAD IT AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE, PROVIDING YOU SPREAD THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE. YOU MAY NOT DISASSEMBLE \ REVERSE ENGINEER \ MODIFY ANY FILE IN THIS PACKAGE, EXCEPT THE BATCH FILE. D. Final words. This is my first release in FATE. There are definitly more to come, so watch for them. Currently under construction : 1. The AD Processor 2.0 - The ultimate ad processor, totally unremovable and much more sophisticated than 1.0. Also non-removable by this util. 2. THE 0.1 - Jugler's quick Text Hex Editor. Enhanced text/hex editor, superb for patching and hex editing in general. Farewell ; // /* { Jugler } */ WORDS TO ALL THE LAMERS THAT MODIFIED THE AD PROCESSOR : You are SO LAME! GET A LIFE, and learn how to code!