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From: p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade)
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Subject: Info on virus products wanted - PD and commercial
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Date: 23 Mar 91 01:33:08 GMT
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wcs@erebus.att.com (William Clare Stewart) writes:

> ( The commercial products I've seen require licensing, which I doubt
> the school would spring for, and I'd rather not see them ripping off
> code which is presumably what got them in this trouble.  Do any of the
> commercial products allow schools to use them free?)

I have received one "freeware" (copyright, but no charge for use) package
from Holland, Thunderbyte Scan.  It has three components, a scanner
(TBSCAN), a TSR scanner (TBSCANX) and a disk boot recovery utility
(TBRESC).  Thus, although it does not have a "disinfect" function, it
will indentify files infected with viri so that they can be replaced with
originals, and it will allow floppy boot sectors to be replaced.

I have also seen a program distributed as VC3-2.ZIP, which contains
version 3.2 of a program called "Victor Charlie", of which version 4.0
will apparently be commercial.  This appears to be "change detection"
software.

Aside from that, I recommend FPROT as the cheapest and best "value for
cost" of all the antiviral products yet reviewed.  frisks "licenses" for
educational use are $1 per computer per year as of version 1.14.


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