D1660@garp.MIT.EDU (10/27/89)
In response to Henry Schmitt's comments about SAM, I would like to clear up a few things. SAM does indeed provide a mechanism to view, edit, and even print its exceptions list (i.e., the alerts that have been learned). It's quite easy to remove any exception that may have been accidentally entered. So his comments about SAM letting a virus through, etc. are not true. Also, I programmed the alert display in SAM without the help of MacDTS (I too am simply an independent developer)! BUT, I believe how I do it is even safer than how Apple does certain similar things! This was the hardest part of SAM, and required quite a bit of research, testing, and so forth to guarantee a stable alert under all environments. There are man-months of work in those alert boxes!! Paul Cozza SAM Author