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Re: Win95 Antivirus for Labs

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From: MARSHA WILLIAMS
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00
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>We are upgrading our labs to Windows-95 this summer, and we're ready to
>order our Antivirus.  We have been using Norton Antivirus, but we
>would like to know if anyone has any recommendations before we order.

We also bought Dr. Solomon's Toolkit. The educational site license is not
as inexpensive as F-Prot (what can possibly be less that that!) but
otherwise quite reasonable. Also, when we bought it, this was the only
program that even saw the virus (Batman2) that was chewing up our
workstations and servers, much less cleaned it and stopped the spread. (The
other major virus programs mentioned didn't even see the virus.) It is
doing a very good job in the lab in the two months we have had it. It scans
the floppies automatically when the student tries any kind of read or write
involving the floppy. It renames infected files automatically with a .Vxx
extension if they can't be cleaned. According to one lab assistant, it
paused in the middle of an Internet download; informed her the download was
infected; offered to clean it; did so; and resumed the download. It is
running on the server, DOS, Windows, Windows95 and there is a Windows NT
workstation version. No Macintosh yet, though.

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Marsha Williams                             willia97@ccvax.mmc.edu
Director Information Management
Meharry Medical College                       VOICE:(615) 327-6307
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