AGUTOWS@WAYNEST1.BITNET (Arthur Gutowski) (06/01/89)
Hello, netland.
Some time ago, I sent out a request to all of you to send me info
regarding IBMPC anitiviral programs that are available (for our
"extermination" team here at WSU). I'd like to thank all of you who
have sent me correspondences and files, especially Matt Mathai, Jim
Wright and Yuval Tal. Jim has taken on the volumnious (SP?) task of
coordinating a cross-network antiviral archive. He has been a
tremendous help to our efforts.
Now that I've amassed a collection of antivirals, I'd like to pose
another question to you folks...that is >What are your opinions on
these products, and which would you recommend using?< These programs
will be distributed (if they are PD or Shareware, that is) to the
university public as well as the staff here. Here's what I have:
ALERT13U ARC Alert! v1.3
BOMBSQAD ARC Bombsqad v1.0
CAWARE ARC CAware v?.? (for executable C programs)
CHKSUM ARC Checksum v?.?
CHKUP32 ARC Checkup v3.2
CHK4BOMB ARC Check for Bomb v1.0
CONDOM ARC Condom v?.?
DEBRAIN ARC Debrain v1.4
DELOUSE1 ARC Delouse v1.0
DETECT2 ARC Detect v2.?
DPROT102 ARC Dprotect v1.02
FILE-CRC ARC File-CRC v?.?
FSP$152 ARC Flushot+ v1.52
SENTRY02 ARC Sentry v2.?
SYSCHK1 ARC Syscheck v1.0
TRAPDISK ARC Trapdisk v1.0
UNVIR ARC A comprehensive package of extermination/prevention/
resident-memory-check programs
VACCINE ARC Vaccine
VACCINEA ARC Vaccinea (is there a difference between this and the above?)
VCHECK ARC Vcheck v1.1
Of the above, Debrain seems a must for (c)Brain removal. On first
glance, and what I've made of previous discussions, Flushot+, Sentry,
and Alert! seem to be the frontrunners in CRCs and segment-checking
programs. These appear to superseed (or even outdate) most of the
other CRC, file-attribute, or file- segment checking programs such as
Condom or Vaccine. Of the resident disk protection mechanisms,
Trapdisk and Dprotect seem to be the more up-to-date programs. Let me
have some relatively unbiased evaluations of what these programs can
do and how effective and easy to implement they are, etc. (I ask for
unbiased because I know the authors of most of these programs
subscribe to this list ;^) I'm interested in hearing any comments
about the Unvir package as well, since I've never heard of or seen it
before. Please respond directly to my Bitnet address below.
One last poser and I'll bow out of this somewhat long posting. I also
have available a FIX EXEC written in CMS REXX to cure some UUencoded
file transfer problems I've been having when getting files from across
gateways. It was written in order to re-translate some of the
characters that some mailers translate when the mail go through. It
picks on about five or six specific hex codes that cause these
problems. It was written by a data comm fellow over here by the name
of Brian Holmes. But, before you ask me for it directly...Ken, how
about posting this one at your Lehigh archive sight (or any of the
antivirals I've compiled here for that matter)?? Drop me a reply and
let me know what you think. [Ed. Send me the EXEC (for now), and I'll
get it posted. Thanks!]
Thank you for your help and patience.
Art
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+------------------------------------------------------------------+rogers@marlin.nosc.mil (Rollo D. Rogers) (06/02/89)
hi, i have had FSP 1.52 running on my XT clone since downloading it from SIMTEL20 about 2 weeks ago. So far i have had no problems with it. And i found the instructions for installing and evaluating this software to be fairly easy to understand. So i am now going to recommend this anti-viral PC software to our PC users. REgards, RollO Rogers, COMPUSEC SPEC NOSC SD