Alan_J_Roberts@Sun.COM (08/09/89)
The following is a forward from John McAfee:
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I've had a number of requests for a version of VIRUSCAN which will
stay resident and check each program as it's loaded. The suggestions
were that such a program would give no false alarms and would not
interfere with other memory resident programs since it would not need
to check interrupt 13 or other disk I/O calls.
I succumbed to temptation and made a memory resident version.
Initial testing has gone well and it indeed does not conflict with any
other memory resident program and we have not seen sny false alarms
from a variety of systems. When it loads it checks the partition
table, boot sector, hidden files and the Command Interpreter.
Thereafter it scan each program that's loaded. That's it. What I
need now are beta testers. Everyone who insisted that I build this
thing has a moral obligation to step up to the line and volunteer.
Please call me at 408 727 4559, 408 988 3832, or leave a message on
HomeBase at 408 988 4004.
Thanking you in advance. John McAfeemlord@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Lord) (08/10/89)
Would you consider perhaps someday posting VIRUSCAN to comp.binaries.ibm.pc ? I know I would love to have a copy, and there are probably thousands of other interested onlookers as well. I know there are archive sites, but that doesn't help those of us who lack BITNET and FTP access. Cheers, - -Mark