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- For centuries, miners have brought a canary down into the mines with
- them. They do not do this for the company or for the music; they do it
- because a canary will die from small amounts of deadly gasses prior to
- the miner feeling adverse effects. Installed and used properly, The PC
- Canary may become infected by a computer virus and give you enough
- warning to eradicate the virus and recover before serious damage is done.
-
- The PC Canary is a passive virus detector which gives an alarm when it or
- its data file becomes infected. The PC Canary scans for all types of
- computer virus that infect your command processor, .exe programs or .dat
- files, ie., virtually all viruses. It is able to scan itself even for
- viruses that haven't been written yet, since it detects the effects of
- the virus, rather than the virus itself.
-
-
- The advantages of a passive virus detector include:
- * Low maintenance. Since it detects the effects, rather than the
- signature of a virus, it is not necessary to constantly update the
- software for new virus strains.
- * Low overhead. It is not memory-resident, and so does not require
- CPU cycles and memory. Since it need scan only a limited number of
- files for known results, it takes little processing time as compared
- to programs that scan all files for matches on a signature table of
- more than 200 possible viruses.
-
- The files "Canary.exe" & "Canary.dat" are necessary for installation;
- please see the detailed internal instructions (run the program and press
- the [F1] key) for installation considerations.
-
- PC Canary is easy to install and does not modify any files other than its
- data file. This allows you to use this program in conjunction with other
- security programs. It will automatically adjust for DOS changes, and so
- will not report a problem in COMMAND.COM when you upgrade DOS.
-