Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!neptune!gords
From: gords@neptune.UUCP (Gord Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VirusX 1.21
Message-ID: <261@neptune.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 88 17:52:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: neptune.261
Posted: Mon May 16 13:52:03 1988
References: <3004@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: gords@neptune.UUCP (Gord Smith)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Lines: 28

In article <3004@cognos.UUCP> glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) writes:
>The author, Steve Tibbett, gave permission for this to be posted. This is an
>update of the version (1.0) on Fish Disk 137. This version is capable of
>detecting the Byte Bandit virus. I personally have not tested this, since my
>disks are not infected, at least VirusX says so :-)

I didn't think so either, until after having installed VirusX in my startup
I popped in my copy of GRIDIRON I had bought (already opened) at a "closing out"
sale. Suddenly a requester popped up saying this disk was infected with the SCA
virus! Getting rid of it was as simple as clicking on an option in the 
requester (and switching off the write-protect tab). Needless to say I crossed
my fingers and hoped that GRIDIRON used a standard boot block. (It did).

This sucker just sits in the background and checks any and all floppys inserted
into either drive.  It recognizes the SCA virus, the Byte Bandit and will also
bring to your attention any disk with a non-standard boot block. If you click
on its (small) window, you get a count of the number of disks checked and
the number of viruses found (hopefully zero ;-).

I highly recommend this virus checker, and commend Steve on his efforts.
(Should I have commended and then recommended? Holy grammar, Batman!)


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