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- From: marc@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU (Marc Matteo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Anti-Virus software
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.160247.3545@nic.csu.net>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 00:02:45 GMT
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- In article <1go1dnINNcf5@calvin.NYU.EDU> roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- Yup, it can be configured in a variety of ways. You can make the abort button
- inactive if you want. On *my* machine I leave it active although I don't use
- it (really) and I like to think I know what I'm doing. In the computer lab
- where I work it is set to be INACTIVE for just the reason you mentioned.
-
- Marc
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