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weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:

>In article <MTUCKER.91Apr23141932@greyrock.greyrock.mso.colostate.edu> mtucker@greyrock.mso.colostate.edu (Michael R. Tucker) writes:
>>     newer virus protection programs on the market. (we already have
>>     Gatekeeper, and Disinfectant) I am looking for info on Symantec
>>     Antivirus for Mac (SAM). Any reccomendations, cautions, steering
>>     to other programs?  Any help is appreciated............

>You know what?  There's not a whole lot to recommend SAM over Gate and Dis.

   For the purposes you stated, use in a public area by many different people 
   will use the Mac (if I remember correctly) you will find that you will 
   NEED to password protect this file.  We have some in a public use area 
   and you may be surprised who messes with the CDEVs and changes things. 
   
   The other thing is that the authors of Disinfectant and Virus Detective 
   have no plans to update their programs to handle the new HyperCard virus  
   (MacWEEK 4/16/91).  SAM and Virex (from Microcom) have been updated to 
   handle thisnew virus.  You would have to find out if GateKeeper offers 
   protection from this virus. 

>Also, SAM is not as user-friendly as Dis.

   This is a matter of opinion!  When you have more features and options 
   you have more items to change.  If you don't modify SAM's default 
   settings, then it is as easy to use as Disinfectant (IMHO). 

   Don't get me wrong.  I think that there NEEDS to be a freeware or 
   shareware product and I think that John Norstad (author of Disinfectant 
   "freeware") and Jeff Shulman (author of Virus Detective "shareware")  
   should be given a medal.  I just think that many Mac's in public use  
   areas need the password protection and audit trail ability that only the 
   commercial packages have.  And because of the financial investments of  
   these companies, they will provide the virus updates that John and Jeff  
   may not be able to provide for time and financial reasons. 

   As always, just my thoughts... 
 
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