jln@acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (12/23/89)
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