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Re: Floppy virus scanner like SAM's?

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From: Dale Southard
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 1991 00:23
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First off,

I agree completely with everything John N. and others have said already.

BUT

If you really must have 1984-style scanning of inserted floppies, I believe
that the shareware program virus detective can autoscan.  I say believe
because, like others, I use a combination of the disinfectant init and
GateKeeper/GK Aid.  (By the way John -- using the two (three?) in combination
has one distinct advantage -- with the prevalance of .SEA files floating around,
I can have protection against known viri ALL the time and protection against
unknown viri most of the time -- and I have never seen a conflict between them,
nor seen any "bumping" when I looked w/ init scope)  It (Virus Det.) seems to
be well supported by the author, as he has the search strings for new viruses
out at about the same time as John has the next Disf. ready, both of which
seem to occur prior to any commercial defense release.

But your milage may vary...



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Subject: Re: Floppy virus scanner like SAM's?
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