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WDEF / Apology to 1st Aid Software

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From: John Norstad
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 17:46
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I have a major public apology to make to 1st Aid Software.  I just learned 
that their product Anti-Virus Kit is effective against the new WDEF virus, 
and I have been saying that "none of the popular virus prevention tools 
were effective against WDEF."  This was obviously a gross error on my 
part.  My only excuse is that I don't have a copy of Anti-Virus Kit that I 
can use for testing.  This is not a good excuse - I shouldn't have made 
the statement if I couldn't back it up.

1st Aid Software deserves a great deal of credit for having the only virus 
prevention tool that was capable of catching WDEF.  Everybody else failed, 
including Symantec's SAM, HJC's Virex, Gatekeeper, and Vaccine.  I don't 
know about MainStay's AntiToxin - I don't have a copy of that either (yet).

In the future I'll try very hard not to make claims that I can't back up 
with solid evidence.

John Norstad
Northwestern University
jln@acns.nwu.edu
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