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Subject: November 1993 LAT (PC)
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                       LAT 9311   November 12, 1993

 +--------------------------+----------+---------+-----------+-----+
 | SCANNER                  |  COMMON  |  POLY-  |    ZOO    |FLAGS|
 |                          |          | MORPHIC |           |     |
 |                          |          |         |           |     |
 |                          |38        |56       |1518   1470|     |
 +--------------------------+----------+---------+-----------+-----+
 | Integrity Master 211     |38   100% |56  100% |1503  99.0%| GS  |
 | TBAV 608                 |38   100% |55  98.2%|1496  98.6%| GS  |
 | F-Prot 2.09F             |38   100% |56  100% |1481  97.6%| S   |
 |                          |          |         |           |     |
 | VIRx 2.91                |36   94.7%|35  62.5%|1438  94.7%| S   |
 | Scan 108                 |38   100% |52  92.9%|1403  92.4%| S   |
 | Dr Sol A-V toolkit 6.20  |37   97.4%|30  53.6%|1365  89.9%| C   |
 |                          |          |         |           |     |
 | NAV 3.0                  |38   100% |53  94.6%|1332  87.8%| C   |
 | MSAV w/DOS 6.0           |28   75.7%|17  30.4%| 915  62.2%| D   |
 +--------------------------+----------+---------+-----------+-----+

      C- Commercial software

      D- This product does not scan for boot sector viruses inside
         droppers. This is why scanners that detect droppers were tested
         against 1335 viruses. Scanners that fail to detect droppers were
         tested against 1470 viruses. I tried to be fair.

      G- Generic Virus detector. The other utilities with this product may
         detect viruses that this scanner misses, so don't judge this
         product too harshly because the scanner isn't as effective as you
         would like.

      S- Share Ware or Free Ware procuct.

 ========================================================================
      I have tested the following generic products, and
      recommend them.

                                                      FLAGS
                                                     +------+
      F-Prot Professional (Command Software Systems) | IV   |
      Integrity Master (Stiller Research)            |*ISV  |
      PC-cillin (Trend Micro Devices)                | ASV  |
      PC-Rx (Trend Micro Devices)                    | ASV  |
      TBAV (Thunderbyte)                             |*ISV  |
      Untouchable (Fifth Generation Systems)         | ISV  |
      Victor Charlie (Bangkok Security Associates)   |*BEISV|
                                                     +------+
             *-Share ware product
             A-Activity Monitor
             B-Uses Bait files that try to get infected by unknown viruses
             E-extract the signatures for unknown viruses
             I-uses integrity checking
             S-Stores System areas. Boot sector, and Partition table
             V-comes with a Virus scanner.

      I placed the generic virus detectors in alphabetical order. I do not
      recommend one product over another. All of them work differently and
      may not fit the way you use a computer, so request information on
      several before you decide.
 ========================================================================
      I would like to thank most of these companies for providing me with
      evaluation copies of their software to test.

      If your company produces anti-viral software, and would like for me
      to test it in LAT, contact me at either of the addresses below.
 ========================================================================
      These tests were performed on a 33 MHZ 486

                        Bill Lambdin
                        102 Jones Lane
                        P.O. Box 577
                        East Bernstadt, Ky. 40729

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