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From: A.SIGFUSSON@ABERDEEN.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: More on VIRUSCAN (PC)
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Date: 19 Jul 89 21:51:10 GMT
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After my first comments on VIRUSCAN I have had some replies from other
people and this program seems to work in different ways on different
machines.  I have used it on a COMMODORE PC 10 II and an AMSTRAD 1640, both
using MSDOS 3.2 and in both cases when doing a multiple scan of diskettes
the program thinks it is scanning the same diskette.  I have tried this
both on drive A: and B: and this makes no difference.  Rollo D. Rodgers
has tried this on different types of machines and had no difficulties if
the scan was done on the B: drive using DOS 3.2 (I think) but if scanned
on drive A: the scan is not done properly.
As I Pointed out this can be avoided by doing something different like DIR
or as Rollo D. Rogers suggested by hitting C before each disk.  There is
a new version of VIRUSCAN out now and since I do not have a copy I dont know
if this has been fixed but I would be interested to know or if somone could
mail me a copy.

               Best regards,

              Arnor Sigfusson (A.SIGFUSSON@UK.AC.ABERDEEN)