Re: Vshield vs Virstop (PC)

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From: Charles T Wilson -- Personal Acc...
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:02

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chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:
>> From:    mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates)
>
>> Isn't VIRSTOP a program by IBM for internal use by IBM employees only?
>
>No, you're thinking of VSTOP, which is used internally in IBM, and is
>also available to people who buy the IBM Anti-Virus Service Offering.
>The most recent incarnation of this code is as the DOS Session Shield
>component of IBM AntiVirus/DOS and IBM AntiVirus/2 (it's no longer
>called "VSTOP" there).
>
>VIRSTOP is something else, I'm not sure exactly what.

Virstop is part of the F-Prot package..

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