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From: jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
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Subject: Re: Thank you, John Norstad
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Date: 9 Feb 90 16:53:05 GMT
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In article <90039.150038CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET> CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu 
(Christopher Tate) writes:
>   I sincerely thank you, John Norstad.  Your efforts have been deeply
>   appreciated.

Thanks for the thanks, but I'm getting embarrased. Please folks, if you 
need to thank me, send me email (I do enjoy it), but don't waste bandwidth.

I do my work on Disinfectant for three reasons:

1) It's fun.  I was born to hack, and viruses are fascinating.
2) It's made me famous, at least in the Mac world.  That's definitely neat.
3) It's a public service.  

3) comes in a distant third.  It's nice that so many people have found my 
program useful, but that's really not why I wrote it.

> This much
>   goes without saying, in many ways; there are simply no other utilities
>   which perform anywhere close to as well as Disinfectant.

What about SAM and Virex?  They're just as good as Disinfectant - better 
in many ways.  (My program has a nicer human interface and a better 
document, but theirs have protection INITs, checksumming, etc).  I'm 
trying to catch up in my new version 2.0.

What about Chris Johnson's GateKeeper and Jeff Shulman's VirusDetective?  
Both are fine programs which do very important things which Disinfectant 
can't do (yet).  

John Norstad
Northwestern University
jln@acns.nwu.edu