Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!cbnewsi!cbnewsh!wcs From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Virus Utility???? Message-ID: <1991Mar26.012447.12798@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 26 Mar 91 01:24:47 GMT References: <2453@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> <27569@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: News Busters Lines: 24 In article <27569@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: ]We use SCAN (we have a site license) by McAfee Assoc. All the employees ]with PCs watch out for viruses real well since we really came down on them ] ... ]MORAL? ALWAYS SCAN AFTER INSTALLATIONS!!! ESPECIALLY ON ARCHIVED FILES! Are you also using VSHIELD ? We had a bout with Jerusalem B which someone's kid brought home from school, and SCAN/CLEAN seem to have done a better job of cleanup than VB_101 or VKILL, which are public domain (sigh - we want a PD version to give the school, but I'm not sure I can trust them to clean up everything.) Since then, we've been installing VSHIELD, which does a good job of catching infections at boot time and execution time. Don't yet know if the public-domain IMMUNE will do as well - it's a lot smaller. VSHIELD comes with lots of dire warnings about using it along with disk caches; I don't know if IMMUNE is safe or merely doesn't warn you :-) Either way, it's cheap insurance against reinfection - can it catch your FHARD program at work?? -- Pray for peace; Bill # Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M-312 Holmdel NJ # Hacker. System Designer. Troublemaker.