-=> Mocking Tim Wong to All <=-
   
 TW> I've  switched  over to W95 recently but  am not too impressed at how
 TW> it hides  its  functionality  to the end  user.  For years, I've been
 TW> using FProt  from DOS and although I've never found any viruses (knock
 TW> on fake wood), I am more wary in this new environment. :=)
 TW> Are  W3x  and W95 viruses any different  than  the other run of the
 TW> mill kind and am I still well protected by continuing to use this
 TW> scheme? 
there actually aren't that many viruses designed specifically for
windows environments... the same software should work to scan files,
cleaning and reading osr2 fat32 mbrs (such as that which comes with
later implementations of w95) does not work so well with plain dos
scanners...
 TW> I   do   have   "McAfee  VirusScan   for   Windows95"  and
 TW> "ThunderByte VirusSoftware  v6.52"  on a distributed CDROM.  I await
 TW> your comments on these three packages and whatever other you care to
 TW> recommend. 
fprot is good, mcafee is ok... your version of thunderbyte is
considerably out of date... you might want to check for new versions of
the other av software aswell... if you have web access i suggest
www.virusbtn.com... you'll find links to a whole bunch of different
anti-virus developers...
 TW> It would be nice if it had a "free to home user" license as it is
 TW> rather tight in tight in that department.
f-prot is the only one that does... the rest are either shareware (which
expect you to register after a certian amount of time) or evaluationware
which stop working after a certain amount of time and don't offer the
functionality of the full commercial version...
... X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
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