Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VirusX Message-ID:Date: 3 Jun 88 21:58:33 GMT References: <3424@enea.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 26 Posted: Fri Jun 3 17:58:33 1988 In-Reply-To: <3424@enea.se> > *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 1-Jun-88 VirusX+Byte+King of Chicago..* > *Tommy Petersson@enea.se (2197)* > I just tried VirusX 1.21 from the net, and it's neat! Easy and safe to > find viruses (SCA and ByteBandit) + other non-standard boot-blocks. And > it does that while you are running another program! It's nice that it stays in the background and checks disks, but I won't use it because it leaves that #%^$@&! window on my workbench screen! PLEASE! If you write a program whose only purpose is to sit in the background and does not need to constantly communicate with the user, then it doesn't need to open a window on the Workbench screen. I have enough windows fluttering about on my Workbench without "garbage" windows (i.e. those that don't give me information or allow me to interact with the program owning the window) getting in the way. I'll stick with VCheck in my startup-sequence, thank you. --M Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "if you ain't ill it'll fix your car"