dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky) (01/13/90)
The latest MacWeek (9 Jan) has an article on page 10 that describes the latest victim of the problem of electronic vandalism. 1st Aid Software, publisher of Anti-Virus Kit (which recently acheived notoriety as being the only Mac Anti-virus application that effectively detected and prevented WDEF *before* WDEF was isolated) has announced they will issue no further updates to the application. Their line of reasoning is the same as Don Brown's for not updating Vaccine. 1st Aid does not wish to get into an ever escalating battle of more sophisticated tools s. more sophisticated threats. I'm sorry to see this happen. While I believe we are essentially fighting a "staying effort" with vandalism today, walking away from the problem will not stop the continuing evolution of electronic threats.