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>In article <3467@accuvax.nwu.edu> jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>[bunch of stuff deleted]
>Don't hold your breath waiting for 2.0.  I have a real job, and I mostly
>work on Disinfectant at home at night and on the weekends.
>
>Of course, with all this new stuff, I'll have to charge double - the
>program will still be free :-)
>
I have a lot of respect for the time and effort going into the Disinfectant
product being produced by Norstad.  As a graduate student struggling to
produce a dissertation while working formerly as a consultant and now a faculty
member (fixed term appointment as instructor), his work has saved me personally
many hours of frustration in dealing with the problems created by virus
programs.  All of this for the great price of nothing!

However, I had assumed, obviously incorrectly, that his work was at least being
subsidized by Northwestern University in terms of allowing him time to
produce the product.

If Northwestern is NOT providing some incentive for Norstad to work along
these lines, may I humbly suggest that they do so.  Northwestern is being
rewarded for ITS affiliation with Norstad since so many Mac users obviously
have great respect for the work being done by him.

If Northwestern IS providing some development/release time or something
similar, then please ignore remarks in above paragraph.

>>In article <25539@gryphon.COM>, jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) says:
>>
>>Disinfectant is great stuff, cheap.  Your work to combat this
>>problem is significant, and greatly appreciated.  This future
>>version of Disinfectant sounds very nice, and the re-usable user
>>interface code should prove very handy for other applications.
>>We salute you and the others who have worked so hard to keep the
>>Macintosh world safe from unwanted vermin.
>> [bunch of stuff dealing with vulnerability of Apple's approach]

I do not have the technical background to begin to address Apple's strategy
regarding building some types of virus protection into system software.  So,
I won't.

However, I would like to add my voice to those raised on the net thanking
Norstad and others for the work they have done.  For those of you who may
suggest this is a misuse of bandwidth, let me just say that it is better
here than in Norstad's mailbox.
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Scott D. Camp
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The Pennsylvania State University
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