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From: twells@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Tabor Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Virus checkers
Keywords: VirusX, et al.
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Date: 12 Jan 91 03:37:00 GMT
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dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:


>I have VirusX4.0 on my system, which I always launch in my Startup-Sequence.
>So my question is, with all these other virus checkers, am I leaving  myself
>open for some virus?  Is there some (known) virii that VirusX doesn't get?

>Is there some other virus checker I should have?

>Dave Schaumann      | We've all got a mission in life, though we get into ruts;
>dave@cs.arizona.edu | some are the cogs on the wheels, others just plain nuts.
>						-Daffy Duck.

Well since Steve Tibbett hasn't updated virusx in a long time, yes you are very
succeptable (sp) to some of the new virus' that VirusX doesn't catch. And there
are several. You might want to think about getting 2 or 3 of the 'main' virus
programs for the Amiga. SOme that come to mind are NoVirus & ZeroVirus III.
Currently I'd say that NoVirus does the best job of checking for the new 
virus'. If you keep current with these virus killers, then you have a good
chance of keeping current with all of the virus'. Since updates are never
regular, the more of these programs that you keep current on, the better chance
you have of being able to destroy the newest virus'...

	Tabor Wells
	twells@eecs.cs.pdx.edu

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