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In article <hoepfner.672626123@heawk1> hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes:
>   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. 

But you need to keep this in context--both Jon Norstad and Jeff Shulman
have apparently said that the reason they will NOT update is because the
virus is written in HyperTalk, and as such is easily modifiable to avoid
whatever detection-mechanism they implement.  Will everyone who uses SAM
or Virex be forced to upgrade again and again as various individuals
modify the HC script for the new 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). 

While I will not deny the SAM has more options, it is FAR from friendly
with even the defaults.  The reason I say this is that blasted
floppy-scanning dialog!  It has to be the most intrusive, obnoxious,
machine-slowing bits of code every written.  The fact that
Disinfectant's INIT can do the same job without so much as BEEPING makes
me hate SAM all the more.
  And why should I be warned by SAM every time the Font/DA Mover adds
something to the System file?  This is normal behavior, but it can
scare the beejeebers out of a neophyte user.  "The documentation TOLD me
to do this, and now the program is giving me a virus!"

  Personal opinions also; I am forced to use SAM at work, and dislike it
  immensely.  I use Disinfectant at home exclusively.

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