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- The PC Canary v91e Robert Schenot Registration $ 19.95
- UTIL APR91 PCCanary Schenot Virus Detector Alarm Security ASP
- FILES: cny91e.sdn
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- Virus alarm which detects modifications to .EXE, .DAT and
- COMMAND.COM files. Installs easily and does not modify
- files, allowing its use with other security programs. Allows
- DOS upgrades. Named for miner's canary whose death signalled
- invisible toxic fumes.
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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 be
- one of the first programs to become infected by a computer
- virus, and will give you enough warning to eradicate the
- virus and recover before the virus does serious damage.
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- This program scans itself, its data file, and COMMAND.COM for
- infection by a computer virus. The PC Canary scans for all
- types of computer virus that infect .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.
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- Advantages of a passive virus detector include:
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- * 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.
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- * 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.
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- A smoke alarm, not a fire extinguisher.
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- Hardware Requirements : PC or MS-DOS computer w 200k RAM,
- 300k disk.
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- Other Requirements : DOS 2.1 or higher.
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