Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!omx!SteveX
From: SteveX@omx.UUCP (Steve Tibbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re:  Virus checkers
Message-ID: <SteveX.3282@omx.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 91 05:42:06 GMT
References: <647@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <D39142C.91Jan14230143@kaira.hut.fi>
Organization: Artech Digital Entertainments Inc.
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>   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?
>
>Yep!  VirusX (latest release to my knowledge is 4.01) doesn't
>recognize all virii.

No virus checker recognizes all of 'em.

>   Is there some other virus checker I should have?

The newest version of whatever one you trust.  Newest is the important
part.  (I will have another VirusX before too long.  4.01 doesn't 
recognize everything out there, but it still finds all the most common
viruses.  The new version will know all viruses I have.)

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   ...Steve Tibbett...bix=s.tibbett...Plink=STEVEX...BBS=613-731-3419...
              ...VirusX=4.01...Insert Disclaimer Here...