A.SIGFUSSON@ABERDEEN.AC.UK (07/11/89)
Hi out there, I am new on this list, although I have followed the discussions on the Lancaster Pdsoft archives, and I have two points which I would like to raise. After being hit by the Brain virus I decided to get some protection and after reading both the VIRUS-L and some reviews on protection software I decided to go for SENTRY. It seems to work fine except for the CONFIG.SYS file. The manual claims that sentry would pick up if you added or changed a device driver but it did not when I tried it. Another thing about SENTRY is that the manual does not state clearly enough for the novice PC user that you have to reinstall SENTRY when you add a new .COM, EXE or .SYS file to your disk. If this is not made clear people who are not aware of this might be led to think they are safe when they are not. I also got a copy of VIRUSCAN which has been discussed here recently. When I tried it on few diskettes I noticed that the program told me that they all had same number of directories and files. On inspection I found that this was not the case. For some reason if you scan few diskettes, one after another, the program always thinks it is reading the first one. Only if you do something like "A:>DIR" after inserting a new diskette for scanning does the program do it properly. I suspect that if the first disk only contains 1 or 2 files the remaining disks will not be scanned properly because I found that my DOS disk, which contains lots of files took a very short time if scanned following a disk with only 2 files on. I wanted to point these two things out because lots of PC users could be given false security by protection programs if their use and function is not properly explained. Best wishes, Arnor Sigfusson