Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!WSMR-EMH03.ARMY.MIL!cmcdonal
From: cmcdonal@WSMR-EMH03.ARMY.MIL (Chris McDonald  ASQNC-TWS-RA)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: VIRUSCAN Trivia
Message-ID: <1093.w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Date: 16 Oct 90 18:13:31 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Lines: 13

I mentioned in a recent message the modification to VSHIELD.  Users of
VIRUSCAN should also consult the scanv67.doc file which discusses the /X
option.  Unless you use that option, Version 67 does not automatically
scan for over a dozen viruses labelled "extinct" in John McAfee's latest
release.

While I have no specific quarrel over the definition of "extinct", the small
amount of time needed to scan for these additional viruses would seem to be
a small processing price.  Another approach might have been to permit a
"/X option" which would have allowed a user to consciously omit these viruses.
Instead, the default is to enforce the omission.

The /X option is equally applicable to VSHIELD.