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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Subject: Disinfectant vs WDEF (was: Virus in After Dark 2.0?)
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.094210.29910@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
References: <1990Nov6.043127.27489@portia.Stanford.EDU> <25604@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 90 14:42:10 GMT
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ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:

>... Here at Dartmouth we have been reccomending Disinfectant INIT 2.3
>and Gatekeeper Aid (for its WDEF abilities) and that's it. Vaccine is really
>old and I question its usefulness at this point. Just the two described
>above (along with an always handy copy of disinfectant) should keep the nasties
>away from your Mac.

But Disinfectant INIT catches WDEF too, you know.  It did just that for me
recently, detecting WDEF and preventing it from spreading from the infected
floppy to my hard disk.  Does Gatekeeper Aid perform some other function
that Disinfectant INIT doesn't?

I have to admit, though, that I still use Vaccine, even though it doesn't
catch most of the recent new viruses.  I guess it's because Vaccine will
catch *some* unknown viruses, whereas Disinfectant nearly guarantees not
to.  Disinfectant's attitude is more rational ... but you can't expect me
to be paranoid about viruses AND rational too, can you?
--
Jim Clarke  -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
  clarke@csri.toronto.edu  or  clarke@csri.utoronto.ca  //  (416) 978-4058