Responding to Bill DeGan:
Although the type and frequency of viruses can be different in countries
around the world, in the UK we have a publication called Virus Bulletin
which regularly reviews virus scanners and does comparisons. In addition,
the magazine Secure Computing has just undertaken a comparative review.
In general, the 100 per cent hit rates are achieved by Dr. Solomons, Data
Fellows F-Prot and Command F-Prot. Sophos Sweep, Thunderbytes and McAfee
tend to come in around 99 per cent.
We use a 'sheepdip' machine with Dr. Solomon's and Sophos on it for all
diskettes coming into the organisation. Once checked the diskettes are
given an authorisation code by Disknet.
Individual machines have Dr. Solomon's running as a scanner and in memory.
Gradually they are all getting the Disknet software as well and at that
time they are unable to accept a diskette which has not been through the
the authorisation process (i.e. scanned).
The individual machines are also set up so that they cannot originally
authenticate any diskette unless they conduct a low-level format on it first.
This slows down software and data theft as a bonus.
Hope this helps. Come back to me if you need more.
John Silltow
gbwbsdhs @
ibmmail .
com
From: "Bill DeGan" <Bill .
DeGan @
mis .
wfc .
com>
To: firewalls @
greatcircle .
com
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 08:33:11 300
Subject: Virus Scan Software
Note sure if this is a proper question for this group, but here goes.
We are evaluating virus scan software to be installed on individual
PC's and would welcome recommendations. We have folks that like
Mcfee and Norton but have no solid way to compare. Any help would be
appreciated.
Bill DeGan
Walker Financial Corp.
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