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OS/2 and Viruses
Name: Peter Date: July 30, 2002 at 05:36:26 Pacific
Comment:
Hey all,
I have been getting a lot of junk email that have virus attachments and dealing with them (family members) on other's computers.
I was wondering if anyone knows of an up to date anti-virus software for OS/2... and if so, where and how much. Are there any updates, etc..
There are far and few viruses that affect OS/2, but I want to make sure that I am not infected, since I do have Windows partitions that do touch the net on rare occasion.
I have a copy of McAfee Antivirus that I have been running for OS/2, but I don't think they support OS/2 anymore... At least they don't seem to be interested in mentioning it if they do!
I did a quick search at CDW and they have Command AntiVirus for sale, which also supports OS/2.
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Response Number 3
Name: Chris Date: August 17, 2002 at 18:17:45 Pacific
Reply:
Kaspersky do one too. It is compatible with their daily windows update files but doesn't have the auto-update feature of the their win product.
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Response Number 4
Name: melstrom Date: September 5, 2002 at 09:51:07 Pacific
Reply:
OS/2 itself seems almost never to be subject to virus attacks (I've read that virii to which OS/2 itself might be susceptible number in the low single digits), there are several very highly reputed anti-virus packages actively supported to run under OS/2 to protect systems. Besides Kaspersky, two of them - more widely known outside of the US - are Sophos and Panda: http://www.sophos.com http://www.pandasecurity.com
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