ccx020@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James Nash) (06/25/91)
A well written article (for a change!) appears in the current issue of UK magazine PC Plus, called "Immune Systems". It sets out to explain viruses, offering concise understandable defintions of all those terms you know and love (plus "Armoured Virus"!). Anyway, the main body of Mark Hamilton's article is a review of 10 anti-viral software products. Nearly all of these are UK products, half of which I've never heard of before. It gives a real lashing to Defiant Systems' "Virus Hunter" and verbally assualts Visionsoft's "Immunizer". That latter one comes last in all the tests! The one he recommends is Jim Bates' (Bates Associates) "VIS Utilities" (5 * rating). Also praised are RG Software's "VI-SPY" - 'best US package' - - , Sophos' "Sweep" and S&S's "Dr. Solomon's". Software not included in the review were Mcaffee and F-PROT to name a few. For scanning accuracy, Bates came top, Solomon and Sophos close; only Norton, Visionsoft, Defiant Systems and Virex-Pc (1.1a) came below 75%. For scanning floppies (Speed), Bates came top, Central Point close, others struggling. For scanning Hard Disks (Speed), Norton came top (just), followed by Defiant Systems, Solomons, Bates and Central Point (ITO). If anyone wants more info, buy a copy of PC Plus or e-mail me direct. Please don't clog up the list with "me too" messages :-) - -- James Nash // Computing Services // Phone: x8644 // User ID: ccx020 (cck) - -I spilt Spot Remover on my dog and now he's gone. ccx020@uk.ac.cov.cck