-=> Mocking Paul Heldt to All <=-
   
 PH> Hi everyone, I've been looking for an antiviral program
 PH> lately, and I wanted to knwo which ones you thought were the best ate
 PH> dectecting macro viruses, boot sector viruses, and viruses that are in
 PH> compressed files.  I heard that Dr Solomon is good at detecting those,
 PH> but I wanted to know what all of you thought. 
well what *I* think is that compressed files have little to do with
viral detection, and that av developers who include the capability to
scan within compressed files are wasting space providing decompression
routines when we already have the programs (or should) to decompress the
files ourselves (if we don't, how do we make use of the file we just
downloaded?)...
therefore -
there is no *best* anti-virus product, there are only very good ones,
and ones that you should probably just ignore...
very good scanners include f-prot, anti-virus toolkit pro (avp),
dr. solomons anti-viral toolkit (dsavtk), sweep from sophos, mcafee's
scan, virus alert (look software's alert), and avast (from alwil)....
very good integrity checkers (as far as i know) include integrity
master (stiller research's im), advanced disk infoscope (adinf from
dialogue science), avp (avp from kami), and f-prot pro (from
datafellows)...
where you can find some of them: (http addresses)
fprot at www.datafellows.com
dsav at  www.drsolomon.com
avp at   www.command-hq.com
adinf at www.dials.ccas.ru
im at    www.stiller.com
sweep at www.sophos.com
alert at www.look.com
avast at www.anet.cz/alwil/alwil.htm
scan at  www.mcafee.com
or you can try www.virusbtn.com and you'll probably be able to find
links from there... (it's the virus bulletin site, a well regarded av
industry periodical)
for scanning compressed files, i would suggest either decompressing them
yourself (something you'll ultimately be doing anyways) and/or using a
product like thdpro which uses whatever scanners you wish to set it up
with and whatever compression programs you have to decompress compressed
archives to temporary directories on your drive and scan them with as
many scanners as you like regardless of whether those scanners have
native decompression support or not...
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