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IC>From: Ian Clowes <[log in to unmask]>
  >To: Multiple recipients of list BEE-L <[log in to unmask]>
  >Date:         Wed, 3 Apr 1996 03:03:59 -0500
  >Subject:      Re: Virus Alert
 
IC>As the topic is quite serious I thought it worth repeating post April 1st.
  >  It was not intended as a spoof, although I can't vouch for the sesitivity
  >to modem speed!
 
IC>I understand both the pkzip and the aolgold are virus files currently
  >available for the unwary.   I'm sure there are others too.   I recently
  >downloaded Webscan from Mcaffee, but have yet to set it up.   Has anyone
  >experience of such download protection virus scanners?
 
Hi Ian,
 
Mcaffee programs are free to individual users. There are several others
that are just as good or better, also free. I use Mcaffee on all the
files that come in to my bbs, 29,000+ on line right now. Mcaffee is
upgraded every month.
 
No scanner will tell you if the file has been tampered with and had a
destructive trojan horse added. From what I have read the problem with
the files above is that they contain a trojan horse and nothing will
detect that but a keen eyed sysop or down loader. I try to run every
file that is uploaded to my bbs. Yes, I have found several in the
last five years that were trojans that would erase you fat table or
dos directory. I have learned from bad experience which files to test
for trojan's. Knock wood so far I have never passed on a file to my
own users that contained a virus or trojan horse.
 
                        ttul Andy-
 
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