Re: Vshield vs Virstop (PC)

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1 total messages Started by Jim Baltaxe Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:13

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Author: Jim Baltaxe
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:13

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frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

>Well, VIRSTOP (or Quick scan) will not detect as many viruses as
>F-PROT Secure scan.  It will miss all MtE viruses for example, and
>most of the viruses which cannot be found using a signature-based
>approach. While Secure scan will detect around 99% of all viruses,
>Quick scan may detect only around 90% (however, it will detect a much
>higher percentage of "in-the-wild" viruses).

Maybe this is being greedy, but would it be possible for you to put a
switch into VIRSTOP that would force it to use the Secure scan
mechanism? I realise that this would result in a performance penalty,
but since it is only checking one file at a time this shouldn't be too
intrusive. The benefit would be enhanced security, particularly for
those who would not run F-Prot explicitly to scan their systems
periodically.

Thanks again for everything

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Jim Baltaxe - jim.baltaxe@vuw.ac.nz
Computing Services Centre - Victoria University of Wellington - New Zealand
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