In a message to John Thompson, Murray Lesser wrote re: Norton AV

ML>     I bought IBMAV a couple of years ago (supposedly for OS/2, DOS, and
ML> Windows), and discovered there was really nothing in it for OS/2 because
ML> the documentation said that there were no known OS/2 viruses to check
ML> for.  Since I don't do Windows in any form (I don't even have WinOS/2
ML> installed), nor do I boot "real" DOS, I didn't bother to install the AV
ML> app, and didn't bother Semantic when they took over IBMAV.  Is there
ML> anything in your package of goodies actually aimed at any potential OS/2
ML> viruses, or are all the new viruses these days being written for Win32
ML> systems?

There are still virtually no native OS/2 viruses and even fewer 
in the wild, but if you share files/mail/etc. on a mixed 
Windows/OS/2 network or even stand-alone machine it's still 
probably prudent to scan in OS/2 for DOS and Windows viruses.

Looking at the new virus listing with each signature update, it 
appears almost all new viruses these days are not just 
Windows-specific, but MS-Word/Office macro viruses.  That's good 
for those of us who don't use Windows or other MS products but I 
can't help but wonder how long it will be before somebody manages
to exploit Java as a virus distribution/execution environment. 
Then OS/2 and even linux users would have something to worry 
about...


 * KWQ/2 1.2i * Internet: John.Thompson@ibm.net


--- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 10