Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.apps:4257 comp.sys.mac.misc:8867 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!decwrl!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU!ds4a From: ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Floppy virus scanner like SAM's? Message-ID: <1991Feb12.002328.19868@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 12 Feb 91 00:23:28 GMT References: Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 23 Ireallyam: ds4a First off, I agree completely with everything John N. and others have said already. BUT If you really must have 1984-style scanning of inserted floppies, I believe that the shareware program virus detective can autoscan. I say believe because, like others, I use a combination of the disinfectant init and GateKeeper/GK Aid. (By the way John -- using the two (three?) in combination has one distinct advantage -- with the prevalance of .SEA files floating around, I can have protection against known viri ALL the time and protection against unknown viri most of the time -- and I have never seen a conflict between them, nor seen any "bumping" when I looked w/ init scope) It (Virus Det.) seems to be well supported by the author, as he has the search strings for new viruses out at about the same time as John has the next Disf. ready, both of which seem to occur prior to any commercial defense release. But your milage may vary... --> --> Dale UVa (ds4a@virginia.edu)