EddyHawk's Info List
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Anti Virus Hall of Fame:
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-AVAST
 by: Alwil Software

-AVP (Anti Virus Pro)
 by: Kaspersky Lab (Eugene Kaspersky)
 V3.0 b134 [2000]
  incremental update
 JMT: add even not-yet-known virus
 Thomas Monkemeier: high-precision detection

-CPAV (Central Point Anti Virus)
 by: Central Point Software

-Flu Shot
 ?

-F-Prot
 by: Fridrik Skulason, Vesselin Bontchev/Frisk Software (Iceland)
 V3.04
 V3.07

-McAfee VirusScan (SCAN)
 by: John McAfee/McAfee/Network Associates
 Year: 1992-2000
 variant: for Win32, Unix
 V3.15
 V3.15+
  no more vir.dat update for V3.x on 15 Dec 1999
 V4.7.0 for DOS/PM [Mar 2000]
 V4.12.0 (?)

-McAfee VirusShield (VSHIELD)
 by: John McAfee/McAfee/Network Associates
 Year: 1994-1998
 type: TSR, 32kb upper mem, 77kb XMS, 320kb basemem
 V3.20 [1998]
  no longer updated
  VSHEML.EXE: polymorphic.vir.emulator

-PC-Cillin
 by: Trend Micro Device

-NAV (Norton Anti Virus)
 by: Peter Norton/Symantec

-TBAV (ThunderByte Anti-Virus)
 By: Thunderbyte B.V. or ESaSS B.V.
 Year: 1989-1998
 Type: anti-virus toolkit
 Desc:
  utils to prevent, detect and recover from a virus
   attack: runtime scanner, TSR scanner, chksummer, TSR chksum checker,
   (disk/mem/file) protor, heur.cleaner, UI, wiper, save/restore MBR/BS/CMOS
   and self-check BS/MBR maker
 V8.09 [1998]
 Adv:
  generic TSRs (except the scanner) -> usable even today
  world 1st heur.cleaner (?)
  CyR: the best doc
  scanner explains why a file triggered alarm
  TSR scanner can use XMS or EMS
  prot against tunneling and ANSI bombs by 'TSRs driver'
  can log everything
  nice heuristics
  BS prot in MBR code which CRC-checking BS
  the same code on floppies allows user to boot from HD if no system on
   the FD
  possible to set which prog can go TSR/modify executables/write to
   disk/etc.
 Disadv:
  I've yet to see it find a Win virus
  the TSR scanner doesn't find many viruses by copying (although it finds
   them if the infected file is being executed)
  cleaner doesn't allow wildcards
  not possible to scan and repair at once (but is possible through Inter
   Engineering's TBMClean utility which runs cleaner automaticly)
  shareware
   nag screens
  development has ended
 Alt: InVircible AV, V-Buster

-VirScan Plus
 by: Ralph Roth aka ROSE/ROSE_SWE (Germany)
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NOTE
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1 Dec 1997, McAfee merged with other companies to form Network Associates
McAfee/VirusScan/V3.15+/DAT/readme.txt: 300 new viruses are produced
 each month