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From: mlelias@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu (Mike Elias (Mighty Amigo) Systems Analysis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Virus checkers
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.005927.364@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 04:59:27 GMT
References: <647@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
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In article <647@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, 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.

	I use Zero_Virus.  Not only does it do the usual stuff, like check
disks and memory, but it has a 'brain file' (don't blame me, I didn't name it)
that can be updated whenever you find a new virus, or a different boot sector.
It can also save boot sectors to disk, generate a catalogue of saved sectors,
check files on disk, and a few other nice features.  Combined with VirusX, you
are about as save as you can get.  Also, to tie into the saving of sectors,
it can restore them from same said files.

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