JPINSON@uga.cc.uga.edu (Jim Pinson) (02/23/91)
I have been evaluating several of the virus-scan programs and have noticed that several of them use (or can use) an external text file containing virus "signatures". This seems a very useful feature since signatures can be posted on lists such as this. There does not seem to be a standard format for these files. Is there any reason a standard format could not be developed? It would simplify the virus posting process. Jim Pinson University of Georgia
eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev) (03/21/91)
The scanners have an unpleasant feature. If someone changes the signature of the virus, it (virus) becames unfamiliar to scanner. So the publication of signatures leads to the new versions with new signatures etc. Though it is a good question what is better, this emergency or the self-restrictions in communications ... Eldar A. Musaev lomi.spb.su!eldar@fuug.fi researcher, Ph.D., Mathem.Inst., Acad. of Sci., Leningrad