Announcement: VirusDetective 5.0 and VirusBlockade II 2.0
Jeff Shulman
[ VirusDetective is $40 ShareWare, VirusBlockade is a commercial product ]
[ I encourage using more than only one anti-viral program ]
[ for safety reasons. ---Werner ]
It is my pleasure to officially announce VirusDetective 5.0 (a desk
accessory) & VirusBlockade II 2.0 (a Control Panel & startup
document). Together, they form a revolution in Macintosh anti-virus
protection! Steve Bobker, Contributing Editor of MacUser magazine,
said this about them: "VirusDetective 5.0 & VirusBlockade II 2.0 have
soared to the top of the antivirus heap. Awesome." They are the most
powerful, versatile & pleasurable anti-virus tools on the market
today.
VirusDetective unearths & sniffs out viruses & Trojan Horses BEFORE
they get a chance to lay waste your Macintosh. VirusBlockade gives you
the means to direct how, when, & where VirusDetective does its searches.
VirusBlockade has a new feature so fundamental, so logical, so
practical & so simple that you may wonder why no one thought of it
before - called SUPERFAST FILE SCANNING. SUPERFAST FILE SCANNING
searches a file as soon as the file gets inscribed onto the disk
(which means whenever you DOWNLOAD, SAVE, COPY, or UNCOMPRESS a file;
more technically, whenever "any file is created" or "any resource is
changed"). SUPERFAST FILE SCANNING is definitely a MUST-HAVE for
anyone who downloads or copies files from networks. Quite literally,
you don't have to lift a finger to press a key or click a button to
scan all files you download - it is done FOR you! The scan occurs with
lightning speed; it is "no sooner said than done"! (You may see the
"four-diamond" cursor spin.)
SUPERFAST FILE SCANNING even works on FILE SERVERS! VirusBlockade
prevents users from duplicating infected software onto the file
server, even unattended ones! And NOT at an extra cost because it's a
file server, but at the SAME price as on any other Macintosh!
Then there is the ROOKIE SWITCH! Have you ever worried about (with
good reason) a UNknowledgeable user letting a virus onto a Macintosh,
usually by NOT knowing what to do when a message comes up on the
screen warning that an infected file has just been found? With the
ROOKIE SWITCH, anytime VirusBlockade finds a virus or Trojan Horse
that is about to infect the Macintosh, the screen freezes & a message
appears telling the rookie-user (s)he cannot proceed & to consult the
designated "experienced" Mac person who then skillfully brings the Mac
back to working order. RESULT: no infection, & the rookie-user
continues his/her work.
What else is new? VirusDetective & VirusBlockade have a totally
redesigned "look & feel". Scan floppy disks "if you donUt hold down
a particular key" (the most requested feature). Selectively scan any
disk when disk is started up or mounted, or scan on a specific day of
the week, or on a specific day of the week & time of day. When a
"desktop virus" (like WDEF) is encountered, it is automatically
removed. When an infection is found, you can be alerted, have the
infected file deleted, renamed, or moved to a top-level folder of your
choice. Of course, it still lets you automatically write-protect
disks; scan floppy disks as you insert them; have floppy disks ALWAYS
eject as soon as they are inserted. And much more, too numerous to
includeI Download & investigate more!
Min. req: Mac Plus; System 6.0.2. System 7.0. friendly. VirusBlockade
requires VirusDetective. Update notices will be mailed to registered
users the week of Oct. 2nd.
Special promotion until 12/31/91: single copies are $59 US / $64
non-US (sugg. retail: $70 US / $75 non-US).
---Jeff Shulman, Shulman Software Co.
[ VirusDetective and a DEMO of VirusBlockade was made available last
week in comp.binaries.mac and are available for Anon-FTP from the
the directory mac/virus-catchers of site RASCAL.ICS.UTEXAS.EDU
as well as many other sites. ---Werner ]