LCHICAIZ@ANDESCOL.BITNET (Luis B. Chicaiza S.) (02/15/91)
> 99% of scanning for viruses just requieres looking for a "search string".
What happens with new viruses?
I belive that is more useful to prevent virus contamination than try
to clean a system when it's infected. I have a new anti-virus
product, (named COMPUCILINA), this program vaccinate other programs
(aplication ones, system programs, and a disk boot), and guarantees
these programs will not be infected. COMPUCILINA offers protection
agaist actual and future viruses.
Luis B. Chicaiza S.
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
mail adress: <LCHICAIZ@ANDESCOL.BITNET>frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (02/21/91)
LCHICAIZ@ANDESCOL.BITNET (Luis B. Chicaiza S.) writes: >I belive that is more useful to prevent virus contamination than try >to clean a system when it's infected. I think everybody will agree with this. >I have a new anti-virus product, (named COMPUCILINA), this program vaccinate >other programs (aplication ones, system programs, and a disk boot), and >guarantees these programs will not be infected. COMPUCILINA offers >protection agaist actual and future viruses. Truly interesting, if this is 100% true - but I doubt it. It is easy to add code to programs and boot sectors which will detect infection by 98% of currently known viruses - all the 400 or so known variants, other than a few "stealth" viruses. Adding code which PREVENTS something from being infected is an entirely different story - what if the computer is booted from a floppy and some infected program run ? No additions to other programs, no matter how sophisticated could prevent the programs from being infected. The additional code MIGHT detect the infection, but as I said before, detection and prevention are two different things. - -frisk Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland | Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) | Reserved for future expansion E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801 |