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>From:    "Ross M. Greenberg" <72461.3212@CompuServe.COM>

>C'mon now, Padgett: my own Virex-PC code has had this ability for
>something like two years.  Heck, even Flu_Shot+ has had that since Day
>One (well, since version 1.1, at least) which means that it's been
>available for about four years by this time...
 
Was deliberately avoiding mentioning names since there had been talk about
"commercialization" of the net. In truth there are quite a few that have
been around for even longer, but to see which ones I use you are going to 
have to look up back issues since I am not going to mention Dr. Panda or 
Enigma-Logic either & Aryeh already announced VSHIELD's /CF switch 8*).
Fred can make his own announcement just like Tarkan and Yisreal did (and
would be pleasently surprised if it was as informative).

IMNSHO, the proper goal of a vendor should be to educate the public to the
point at which the superiority of their product will be evident. Sure there
are going to be "trade secrets", but they should be confined to *how* a
product does things, not *what* it is doing. If a product achieves
speed by checking only the first five (ten, twenty) bytes of a .COM file, it
is not going to be secret for long from anyone who checks. 

I really do not care what anti-viral program people use as long as it is
*something*. Sheer diversity is the hardest thing for a virus writer to
surmount and most of the front line offerings are "good enough" and all
are "getting better". Sure everything misses something and certainly
Fred or I or Frisk or Vess could write something that no present scanner
would pick up. As said before, my concern today is directed attacks
against a known target. They have the same vulnerabilties as assasination
targets, are not as mobile, and the attacker need not be concerned
about excape.
					Chilly isn't it ?

						Padgett