BEST ANTI VIRUS

What's the Best Anti-virus Program?
[These days this question is very easy to answer. The ACCC has a site license for Norton AntiVirus that allows you to use it on any personal computer that you own, at school or a home, for no cost. NAV is easy to install and update -- it will update itself if you want to -- and it works great. For more information, see the ACCC AntiVirus Web page. -- Ed.]

Actually, this question is very hard to answer, because I feel the best antivirus program would be one that will rid my system of all viruses. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist. But here are a few that have worked for well for me.
Shareware virus scanners: McAfee: Version 2.27e for DOS, all varieties of MS Windows, and OS/2, at http://www.mcafee.com/, and FProt: Version 2.20 for DOS, at http://www.fprot.com/. Both are shareware and should be registered if you continue to use them. New versions of both are released every three to four months; they can be FTPed from their Web sites. I like them because I can get them fast over the Internet and because they have found and cleaned almost every virus I have encountered except for SMEG.

Commercial anti-virus programs: Two of the best and most reliable commercial programs are Norton AntiVirus and IBM AntiVirus. The programs themselves are not available on the Internet, but the updates that kept them current are:

Norton (at Symantec): http://www.symantec.com/
IBM: http://www.brs.ibm.com/ibmav.html.
Note added 4/98: These days, add Dr. Solomon's, which the ADN distributes at no cost under a site license. For further information, documentation, and downloading, see: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/antivirus/
And visit Dr. Solomon's on the Web at: http://www.drsolomon.com/Return to Contents