-> -=> Mocking Tim Wong to All 
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-> 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 considerably out of date...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...
Ummmm ok....
I don't know where the hell this message came from. My name IS Tim Wong,
but I certainly didn't write this message....
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