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am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:


>Hi!  I would like to know what is the best, most comprehensive public domain
>or shareware viruschecker and killer, and an ftp site that has it.  I have
>decided that I should strat scanning my dls.

Well, even though I would like to say that our scanner (F-PROT) was the best,
the fact is that no single scanner is the "best" in every sense.  It depends
on exactly which combination of features you are looking for.  Most scanners
will detect most of the viruses you are ever likely to encounter - that is the
100 or so viruses that are spread "in the wild" (out of a total of over
2000 different MS-DOS viruses).  They may differ with respect to the
capabilities of the TSR portion, disinfection capability, and other such
features.

Actually, the best approach for you might be to download 2 or three scanners
from a site such as oak.oskland.edu (/pub/msdos/trojan-pro).  There you will
find F-PROT (version 2.06a), SCAN (version 99, I think), TBscan and possibly
a few others.

-frisk

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Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801