turner@telecheck.com writes:

Seems like a good-press piece for a small anti-viral software company. Just one small pick to nit:

Actually, Dr. Sol's AVTK is consistently one of the very top DOS virus scanners, in terms of percent of known viruses it catches.

anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com said:

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Bitton said the company's "Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit" will remove the virus from infected computers. New versions of the Toolkit for DOS, Windows, OS/2, and NetWare are slated to ship in late summer. S&S also plans Fall 1995 introductions of Toolkits for Macintosh, SCO Unix, Windows 95, and Windows NT server and workstations.

Windows NT has an abstracted and object oriented design. User mode programs no longer have access to the hardware (ie., you no longer have access to the boot sector, and cannot hook an interrupt). In short, viruses are much less likely to function under NT, yet these blood-sucking people can't wait to introduce software for it...

I can't speak for S&S, but I'd bet that what they are introducing is a scanner for archives of MS-DOS programs hosted on NT systems. Although it may be that NT-specific viruses have started appearing. (The restrictions on file access don't slow the spread of file infectors all that much -- it's enough for them to infect those things they have write permission for. I think the good Dr. Cohen has done some research on this?) In any case, this is more appropriate for comp.virus than cpunks. -- David R. Conrad, ab411@detroit.freenet.org, http://web.grfn.org/~conrad/ Finger conrad@grfn.org for PGP 2.6 public key; it's also on my home page Key fingerprint = 33 12 BC 77 48 81 99 A5 D8 9C 43 16 3C 37 0B 50 No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government.