On (10 Jan 97) Graeme Minto wrote to All...
 GM> Does anybody know if it is possible to run anti-virus protection while
 GM> actually downloading from the WWW, FTP,Newsgroups and email?
Of course!  Why do you think a TSR virus scanner wouldn't work during
downloads?  Of course, it's up to you to scan compressed archive
contents after the download:  most virus scanners don't do that.
 GM> If so, which applications are available and how are they configured.
Well, I have McAfee's WIN95 scanner installed and active right now.
I have it set to scan files on run, copy, create, and rename.  But
I don't have it set to scan compressed files.
Read the manual and figure the tradeoffs you want (time vs. protection).
But I don't depend on TSR virus scanners to protect me from anything
new I bring into the system.  Instead, I fire up FPROT manually and
scan everything (to include executables in archives).  And I check
compressed executables by type to insure they're not something weird
FPROT can't handle.
... Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle rules. Probably.
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