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to: KURT WISMER
from: PAUL WALKER
date: 1998-03-09 16:11:00
subject: Best Antiviral Program

Hi Kurt,
Kurt Wismer to Paul Walker, 05 Mar 98 22:55.
 KW> though... ibmav, for instance, claim some degree of neural net
 KW> technology...
I think that's just for boot-sectors, isn't it? Must remember to look at 
their virus-lab again some time. 
 KW> it is, but i don't think they bother going to the trouble of changing
 KW> the program just in order to release it...
const debug = true
What's so hard about changing that to false? :) 
 KW> further, some debugging (of sorts) is done over the phone with end
 KW> users... why do you think all those unadvisable switches are there to
 KW> begin with?
/vid?
 KW> method it's using to identify the virus... if it had shown up as an
 KW> exact identification, no matter how rare or flakey the virus, it's
 KW> almost certainly not a false alarm (depending on the
True, I guess. I'm just saying that the output is far more likely to be so 
it looks good to the users (and so people can support it) than because it's 
debugging.
 PW>> Besides, you can always have an option to turn debugging info on
 PW>> - most of  my programs do.
 KW> that depends on what you're talking about with respect to debugging...
Writes debug files, outputs copies of all data blocks it sends to the CD 
interface, tells you exactly what it's doing; that sort of thing, usually.
  Paul              (p.r.walker@warwick.ac.uk)                 
... "I must be a Rare in Taglines: The Gathering d;-)" - Quickling
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