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From: padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (Padgett Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Anti-Viruses, the final chapter (I hope)
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Date: 24 Aug 90 06:10:59 GMT
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	Joe McMahon brings up an excellent point (#3: Bugs). If all
software worked perfectly, every revision level would be 1.0. Having
just gone through a massive installation involving PCs running MS-DOS,
PC-DOS, & Z-DOS in every version from 2.0 to 4.01 (with MANY stops in
between), the likelyhood of an anti-virus program just running on
every platform the first time out are less than nil (Is that a boot
sector infector ? No, it's a Zenith {incidently a 3.0 timestamp is not
in the same place as 3.1 & 3.2 ps: do not rely on VER to tell you
which})- but you would not find out until it was released & then how
do you stop the bad version ?  (I can see it now: Anti-Virus ver 39,
guarenteed to kill 512 viruses including all earlier versions of
Anti-Virus) just send in double the upgrade price for ver 38...).
Enough.