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From: alawlor@dit.ie (Aengus Lawlor)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <7255.25e11cb9@dit.ie>
Date: 20 Feb 90 10:32:24 GMT
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Organization: Dublin Institute of Technology
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In article <13555@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, dalenber@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Russel Dalenberg) writes:
> Ross, several times you've mentioned your anti-virus software.  I just
> thought I'd mention that anti-virus software is the *last* thing I'd use
> as shareware.  I would trust an expensive program from a known software
> company much more readily than I would trust something uploaded to a BBS
> that claimed to be an anti-virus program.  Seems like the perfect place
> to put a virus if you ask me.

Just how effective will an anti-virus program from say Ashton-Tate, that went
into the package 6 months ago, and doesn't know about recent Viruses (Virii??)?
Try tell convince a big name, regular channel retail distributor that he should
scrap the production run of his AV package just because his ace "rattle the
cage" hacker came up with a new anti-viral routine? 

A trusted (important caveat) shareware route is much more effective at fighting
Viruses, precisely because it can react so much more quickly.
> 
> Just two more cents on the pro/anti shareware debate.  :-)
> 
> Russel Dalenberg
> 
> att!ihlpb!dalenber
> dalenber@ihlpb.att.com
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