SCAN for OS/2 uploaded to mcafee.COM... (OS/2)

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1 total messages Started by McAfee Associates Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:24

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Author: McAfee Associates
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:24

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I have uploaded to mcafee.com

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OSCAN99.ZIP     SCAN for OS/2 Version 99 scans OS/2 PC's for viruses

VIRUSCAN for OS/2

This is the first release of SCAN for OS/2 (OS2SCAN).
Like it's DOS-based counterpart, VIRUSCAN (for DOS), OS2SCAN
searches PC's for computer viruses. However, OS2SCAN contains
several important differences:

- -     Since OS/2 operates in a protected mode environment it can
      only check its own area of memory or "memory image" for
      viruses.  Viruses in a DOS session or VDM will not be
      detected in memory by OS2SCAN.

- -      OS2SCAN checks "extended filenames" and HPFS-partitioned
       drives as well as DOS (FAT) drives.

- -      OS2SCAN does not have the /CHKHI, /M, /MAINT, /NOMEM,
       or /UNATTEND switches that VIRUSCAN does.

- -      The /SAVE switch does not modify the OS2SCAN.EXE file.
       Instead, it creates a SCAN.INI file.

- -      OS2SCAN does not return an ERRORLEVEL for DOS batch files.

OS2SCAN Version 99 detects all viruses the current version of VIRUSCAN
does and is otherwise similar to VIRUSCAN.

NOTE:  OS2SCAN requires IBM OS/2 Version 2.00(GA) or above.


VALIDATE for OS/2

To validate the OS2SCAN.EXE file for changes and/or tampering, a new
version of the VALIDATE program has been created, OS2VAL.EXE.  It
should be used to validate all OS/2 executable files, as the DOS-based
VALIDATE.COM will return incorrect information for Check Method 1 if
run against an OS/2 .EXE file.


OTHER OS/2 PROGRAMS

CLEAN-UP for OS/2 (OS2CLEAN.EXE) is still in the beta-test cycle and
should be available around the end of the month.


VALIDATE values are as follows:

SCAN FOR OS/2 V99 (OS2SCAN.EXE)     S:178,352  D:12-09-92   M1: 78A3  M2: 10CA
VALIDATE for OS/2 (OS2VAL.EXE)      S:39,824   D:12-09-92   M1: BFD6  M2: 09DB

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
McAfee Associates Technical Support

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