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Article #34217Re: Virus Rx 1.0a2 Doesn't Detect nVIR
From: pv9y
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1988 04:09
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1988 04:09
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One caveat to John's article concerning nVIR tools. While he is correct about Virus Rx being next to useless at reliably finding nVIR, I can't recommend AntiPan completely. I've found in fairly extensive testing that AntiPan fails fairly frequently to remove the virus from applications. I've found that Vaccination, also found on Rascal, does a better job, but unfortunately Vaccination doesn't see the System or Finder and so can't do a complete job. Virus Detective isn't bad for that, but it is a bit clumsier to use, so I recommend that you use a combination of AntiPan and Vaccination for eradication. For prevention, both Vaccine and KillVirus seem to do a pretty good job, although KillVirus sets off Interferon because of its fake nVIR resource. For detection, Interferon 3.1 and VirusWarning INIT are the way to go. VirusWarning beeps whenever an infected application starts up and thus helps detect infections before they get a chance to do much at all. Adam pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!vax5!pv9y From: pv9y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Virus Rx 1.0a2 Doesn't Detect nVIR Message-ID: <17278@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 10 Nov 88 04:09:45 GMT References: <10330078@eecs.nwu.edu> Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Reply-To: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca NY Lines: 18