Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: portal!cup.portal.com!Alan_J_Roberts@Sun.COM Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Memory Resident ViruScan (PC) Message-ID: <0003.8908091137.AA02260@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 19:07:56 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion ListLines: 19 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu The following is a forward from John McAfee: ============================================================================== I've had a number of requests for a version of VIRUSCAN which will stay resident and check each program as it's loaded. The suggestions were that such a program would give no false alarms and would not interfere with other memory resident programs since it would not need to check interrupt 13 or other disk I/O calls. I succumbed to temptation and made a memory resident version. Initial testing has gone well and it indeed does not conflict with any other memory resident program and we have not seen sny false alarms from a variety of systems. When it loads it checks the partition table, boot sector, hidden files and the Command Interpreter. Thereafter it scan each program that's loaded. That's it. What I need now are beta testers. Everyone who insisted that I build this thing has a moral obligation to step up to the line and volunteer. Please call me at 408 727 4559, 408 988 3832, or leave a message on HomeBase at 408 988 4004. Thanking you in advance. John McAfee