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to: BOB WEINSTEIN
from: ROD FEWSTER
date: 1998-01-12 11:05:00
subject: Best Antiviral Program

 > RF> I go along with this ... my wife and I drive German cars for that
 > RF> very reason.  If Australia produced a car which represented the
 > RF> same value for money, I'd buy it.
 >    [and in a separate message...]
 > RF> Yeah ... I remember the Lemming ... it paid for my Ferrari.  :)
 >    OK... come clean.  What kind of car do you really drive ?
Both ... but not at the same time.  :)
 >       1) Which recognizes the most known viruses (not just those in the
 >          Wild List) most often?
AVP
 >       2) Which heuristically tags the most new/unknown viruses most often?
AVP
 >    Clearly, capability #1 is more important than #2... the probabilities
 >    at this time simply favor being hit by a known virus.  And just as
 >    clearly, you believe that a heuristic capability is important.  Do
 >    you feel that scanners which don't offer heuristic scanning are
 >    fundamentally flawed and thus unacceptable or just not ideal?
Even if it's updated three times a day, a "signatures only" scanner can
never be as good as a scanner which also uses decent heuristics.
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