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From: DOUGB@comsys.byu.edu (Douglas Barlow)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: SCAN program for IBM's (PC)
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Date: 8 Jan 91 15:33:14 GMT
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> Date:    Tue, 08 Jan 91 13:52:32 +0000
> From:    Mr Gordon S Byron <gsb1@forth.stirling.ac.uk>
> Subject: Auto-scanning Virus Vaccine? (PC)
>
> I am interested in finding a DOS antivirus program which would
> automatically scan disks as they are inserted. ideally, something like
> SAM II on the Mac. I noticed a reference to a program called McAfee's
> scan. Is that an auto-scan antivirus program?

Only one problem with that idea: How can the machine tell when a disk
is inserted?  There isn't any type of sensor in IBM floppy drives like
in the Mac.

Doug Barlow