jln@accuvax.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (03/25/89)
Many people have asked me if and when I'll be updating RWatcher to catch the new viruses (as configured RWatcher only catches Scores and nVIR). I thought I'd take this opportunity to reply. Until recently I planned to update it, but now I DONT'T plan to update it! I originally wrote RWatcher for those non-MPW programmers who refuse to use Vaccine because of its constant complaints about the creation of CODE resources. Vaccine's checks are much stronger than RWatcher's, so I've always recommended Vaccine for everybody else. Now there's a new INIT/cdev called GateKeeper, by Chris Johnson, that has even stronger checks than Vaccine's, and can be configured to grant "exemptions" to individual programs. So I now recommend that programmers who won't use Vaccine get GateKeeper and configure it to make their development tools exempt. So as far as I'm concerned RWatcher is defunct - it served its purpose for a brief period of time, but now there's a better tool. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University Bitnet: jln@nuacc Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu AppleLink: a0173 CompuServe: 76666,573