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- From: rslade@sfu.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Quick antiviral listing (general)
- Message-ID: <0019.9211101943.AA07075@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 07:38:05 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
- Lines: 207
- Approved: news@netnews.cc.lehigh.edu
-
- I am starting smarting from the flame burns I got last time I posted this.
- In addition, the net itself seems to agree with the complainants: it has
- "eaten" the last two postings. Nonetheless, five people have requested
- this lately, so ...
-
- QUICKREF.RVW 921106
- Antiviral software and utilities "quick" reference
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- Product Ver Type UI Doc Ease Ovrl Price Comments
- SDRIMOE CG 1-4 I U 1-4
- | | | | | | | |
- Amiga
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- BootX 4.50 SDRM G free
- amiga.physik.unizh.ch, ux1.cso.uiuc.edu or wuarchive.wustl.edu
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- Computer Virus Cat.9207 info 4 4 Free
- CARO, cert
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- VirusChecker 6.06
- amiga.physik.unizh.ch, ux1.cso.uiuc.edu or wuarchive.wustl.edu
-
- VirusX (outdated?)
- s.tibbett on BIX
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- ZeroVirus
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- Atari
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- Computer Virus Cat.9207 info 4 4 Free
- CARO, cert
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- VKILLER 3.84
- woodside@ttidca.com
-
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- Mac
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- Advanced Security (see MS-DOS)
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- Computer Virus Cat.9207 info 4 4 Free
- CARO, cert
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- Disinfectant 2.9 SDR
- nwu
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- Gatekeeper 1.2.6 R MO Free
- Chris Johnson
-
- Rival
- Microseeds Publishing
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- SAM 3.0.8SD M $99
- Symantec/Norton
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- Virex (see MS-DOS, product not by same author)
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- VirusDetective
- Jeff Shulman
-
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- MS-DOS
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- Advanced Security I OE C 2 2 3 1 PCADVGRV.RVW
- Advanced Gravis
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- Antivirus (IRIS) SDR M C 2 2 4 2 $49 PCANTIVR.RVW
- Fink Enterprises
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- Antivirus-Plus SDR M C 2 2 4 2 $99 PCANTIVP.RVW
- Trend Micro
-
- Anti-Virus Toolkit 6.0? SDRIMO CG 3 2 3 4 PCDSAVT.RVW
- S&S International Ltd., sands@cix.compulink.co.uk, perComp Verlag, Ontrack
-
- Central Point Anti-virusSDRI O G 3 2 2 2 not coexist with others
- Central Point PCCPAV.RVW
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- Certus LAN 2.0 SD I O CG 2 1 3 2 PCCERTUS.RVW
- Certus
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- Computer Virus Cat.9207 info 4 4 Free
- CARO, cert
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- Control Room I G 2 4 4 2 PCCTRLRM.RVW
- Borland
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- Data Physician + 3.1A SDRIM C 2 2 2 2 PCDATPHS.RVW
- Digital Dispatch
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- DISKSECURE 1.15A IM C 2 3 3 4 BSIs only
- risc, urvax, eugene cf also FixMBR, FixUTIL PCDSKSEC.RVW
- SafeMBR, CHKSMBR, CHKMEM, CHKBOOT in FixUtil etc. are free
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- Eliminator 1.17 SDR C 3 2 3 2 PCELMNTR.RVW
- British Computer Virus Research Centre
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- F-PROT 2.06 SDR CG 3 3 3 4 home - free, bus. - $1/CPU
- frisk@complex.is, risc, urvax, eugene, garbo PCFPROT.RVW
-
- Hoffman Summary 209 info G 3 3 $35
- risc, urvax, eugene
-
- HTScan 1.8 S C 2 3 3 3 Free (non-comm.)
- (also VSIG 9210)
- risc, urvax, eugene, garbo
-
- IBM Anti-Virus Prod2.19 S C 3 3 3 3 $35/company PCIBMSCN.RVW
- local IBM rep
-
- Integrity Master 1.24 S I CG 3 3 3 $35 PCIM.RVW
- risc, urvax, eugene
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- LANProtect 1.0 S CG 1 2 2 2
- Intel
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- Mace Vaccine 3.0 M G 1 3 2 1 PCMACE.RVW
- Fifth Generation
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- Norton AntiVirus SDRI G 2 3 2 3 $130 PCNRTNAV.RVW
- Symantec/Norton
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- PC-Cillin 2.95L SDRIM G 3 3 3 2 $139 PCCILL2N.RVW
- Trend Micro
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- SafeWord Virus-Safe1.12 I C 2 3 4 3 PCSAFWRD.RVW
- Enigma Logic
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- Thunderbyte Scan 4.3 S C 2 2 3 3 $29 PCTBSCAN.RVW
- (also VSIG 9210)
- (a beta version of a revised product, TBAVB500 is also available)
- risc, urvax, eugene, garbo
-
- VACCINE (WWS) 5.00 SD IMO C 2 1 2 2 PCWWSVCN.RVW
- The Davidsohn Group
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- VACCINE (Sophos) 9111 S I CG 2 2 2 3 PCSOPHOS.RVW
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- Untouchable 1.1 SDRIM CG 2 2 2 2 PCUNTUCH.RVW
- Fifth Generation Systems
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- VDS 2.10T I CG 2 2 3 2 PCVDS.RVW
- risc, urvax, eugene
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- Victor Charlie 5.0 IM C 3 2 3 3 $99 PCVC.RVW
- Delta Base Enterprises
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- Virex-PC 2.2 SDRIM G 4 2 4 4 $99 PCVIREX.RVW
- Microcom
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- ViruCide SD G 3 4 3 3 $49 PCVIRCID.RVW
- Parsons Technology
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- Virus0Buster 3.75 SDRIMO CG 3 3 3 4 PCVRBSTR.RVW
- Leprechaun Software (70451.3621@compuserve.com)
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- VIRUSCAN Suite 97 SDRIM C 2 2 2 3 ~$25/module
- risc, urvax, SIMTEL, garbo, mcafee.com PCSCAN.RVW
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- VirusSafe LAN 4.01 SDRI O CG 2 2 3 2 PCVIRSAF.RVW
- EliaShim Micro
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- VIRx 2.4 S C 2 3 4 4 Free (non-comm.)
- risc, urvax, eugene, SIMTEL, Microcom
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- Vi-Spy 10.0 SDR M CG 2 2 3 3 $150 PCVISPY.RVW
- RG Software Systems
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-
- Key:
-
- Type - S=scanner, D=disinfection (restoration of state), R=resident,
- I=integrity checking, M=activity monitor, O=operation restricting,
- E=encryption
-
- UI - user interface - C=command line, G=menu or GUI
-
- The following are based on a 1=poor - 4=excellent scale
- Doc - documentation
- Ease - I=installation, U=use
- Ovrl - overall rating for general use
-
- Sites:
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- CARO - ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (134.100.4.42)
- cert - cert.org (192.88.209.5)
- eugene - eugene.utmb.edu (129.109.9.21)
- garbo - garbo.uwasa.fi
- nwu - ftp.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.52)
- risc - risc.ua.edu
- simtel - wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
- urvax - urvax.urich.edu
-
- For others see Jim Wright's postings.
- For more detailed reviews see /pub/virus-l/docs/reviews at cert
- For general virus info see VIRUSFAQ.TXT at cert
-
- copyright Robert M. Slade, 1992 QUICKREF.RVW 921106
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