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From: BLSCOLLO@OCC.BITNET (Bonnie Scollon)
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Subject: Re:Auto-scanning Virus Vaccine? (PC)
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Date: 10 Jan 91 21:07:52 GMT
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I have been waiting for someone more knowledgable than I to answer this
but since no one has stepped forward, here goes.........

Vi-Spy (from RG Software) has a resident program which can be used
to automatically scan diskettes.  It works on most newer machines (since
around 1986) which support Drive Change Line (or something like that.)
If the machine has this technology, the disk is automatically scanned and if
a virus is found, the user has the option to clean the diskette.  If the
user chooses not to clean, they are not able to use the diskette.

This, however, does not work if the diskette is called from within a
program (such as a data disk with a word processor.)

More info on this can be found in the documentation with the software.
Although this program is expensive by the single copy, the educational
site license is very affordable.

Bonnie Scollon
Oakland Community College  (Michigan)