[comp.virus] More reviews on archives

krvw@cert.sei.cmu.edu (Kenneth R. van Wyk) (04/02/91)

Chris McDonald, <cmcdonal@wsmr-emh03.army.mil>, has graciously given
us a series of product reviews which he has written on various
anti-virus products for both the PC and the Mac.  The reviews are all
available by anonymous FTP on cert.sei.cmu.edu in
pub/virus-l/docs/reviews.  The following files are currently
available:

mcdonald.avsearch	- AVSEARCH, version 2.23 (PC)
mcdonald.disinfectant	- Disinfectant, version 1.5 (Mac)
mcdonald.fprot		- F-PROT, version 1.14 (PC)
mcdonald.norton		- Norton Antivirus, version 1.0 (PC)
mcdonald.sam		- Symantec Anti-Virus for Mac, version 3.0 (Mac)
mcdonald.virexmac	- VIREX, version 3.0 (Mac)
mcdonald.virexpc	- VIREX, version 1.1a (PC)
mcdonald.virucide	- VIRUCIDE, version 2.01 (PC)
mcdonald.viruscan	- VIRUSCAN, version 6.3V75 (PC)

Ken

aslakson@uunet.UU.NET (Brian Aslakson) (04/05/91)

krvw@cert.sei.cmu.edu (Kenneth R. van Wyk) writes:
>Chris McDonald, <cmcdonal@wsmr-emh03.army.mil>, has graciously given
>us a series of product reviews which he has written on various
>anti-virus products for both the PC and the Mac.  The reviews are all
>available by anonymous FTP on cert.sei.cmu.edu in
>pub/virus-l/docs/reviews.  The following files are currently
>available:

>mcdonald.disinfectant	- Disinfectant, version 1.5 (Mac)

Nice, but Disinfectant has been at version 2.4 for a long time.  Version
2 was a big upgrade.  Of course some things are the same.  It's still free.

This review would be all but useless.

My one line review of Disinfectant 2.4:
Available from various ftp sites, free, you're wrong if you don't use it.*

__________________
Mac users that is...

[Ed. My mistake - I re-checked Chris's review after reading this
message and he indeed did update his review upon receiving
Disinfectant 2.4.  My apologies for any inconvenience.]

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