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- From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Anti-Virus software
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 19:52:23 GMT
- Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
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- > Get SAM. Symantec gives good support although you pay a lot
-
- I actively discourage the use of SAM. Completely aside from the
- facts that it costs money and I find the "scanning disk for viruses" dialog
- boxes annoying, it apparantly can be configured in a variety of ways. Most
- of the machines I've seen it installed on have it configured so that you can
- abort a disk scan if you like. What typically happens is I watch somebody
- put a floppy in, not want to wait the few seconds to wait for the scan to
- finish, and hit the abort button. Some people seem to have trained
- themselves to abort the scan almost automatically every time they put a disk
- in. This makes SAM totally useless.
-
- Would you have sex with a brand of condoms that, everytime you used
- them, stopped you in your tracks and made you wait 10 seconds, but gave you
- the option to just take the condom off and continue what you were doing
- unprotected?
-
- Disinfectant has no configuration required or possible. You just
- install it and it works. You never hear from it again until it alerts you
- to a virus attack.
- --
- Roy Smith <roy@nyu.edu>
- Hippocrates Project, Department of Microbiology, Coles 202
- NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
- "This never happened to Bart Simpson."
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