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From: jln@acns.nwu.edu
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Subject: WDEF / Apology to Mainstay Software (Mac)
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Date: 22 Dec 89 17:51:35 GMT
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I have a major public apology to make to 1st Aid Software.  I just
learned that their product Anti-Virus Kit is effective against the new
WDEF virus, and I have been saying that "none of the popular virus
prevention tools were effective against WDEF."  This was obviously a
gross error on my part.  My only excuse is that I don't have a copy of
Anti-Virus Kit that I can use for testing.  This is not a good excuse
- - I shouldn't have made the statement if I couldn't back it up.

1st Aid Software deserves a great deal of credit for having the only
virus prevention tool that was capable of catching WDEF.  Everybody
else failed, including Symantec's SAM, HJC's Virex, Gatekeeper, and
Vaccine.  I don't know about MainStay's AntiToxin - I don't have a
copy of that either (yet).

In the future I'll try very hard not to make claims that I can't back
up with solid evidence.

John Norstad         Northwestern University       jln@acns.nwu.edu