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- From: maven@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Jim Baltaxe)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Vshield vs Virstop (PC)
- Message-ID: <0012.9212212018.AA02123@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 21:13:52 GMT
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- frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
-
- >Well, VIRSTOP (or Quick scan) will not detect as many viruses as
- >F-PROT Secure scan. It will miss all MtE viruses for example, and
- >most of the viruses which cannot be found using a signature-based
- >approach. While Secure scan will detect around 99% of all viruses,
- >Quick scan may detect only around 90% (however, it will detect a much
- >higher percentage of "in-the-wild" viruses).
-
- Maybe this is being greedy, but would it be possible for you to put a
- switch into VIRSTOP that would force it to use the Secure scan
- mechanism? I realise that this would result in a performance penalty,
- but since it is only checking one file at a time this shouldn't be too
- intrusive. The benefit would be enhanced security, particularly for
- those who would not run F-Prot explicitly to scan their systems
- periodically.
-
- Thanks again for everything
-
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- Jim Baltaxe - jim.baltaxe@vuw.ac.nz
- Computing Services Centre - Victoria University of Wellington - New Zealand
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