Antiviral Protection Comparison Reviews

                                 by Robert M. Slade

                 Copyright Robert M. Slade, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
       ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 RSlade@cyberstore.ca 


The following articles and recent antiviral product reviews are included here: 

       Reviewing Anti-virus Products
       Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit (AVT) 7.10
       IBM Antivirus/DOS 2.1 (also IBM Antivirus/2)
       F-PROT Professional 2.17
       Norton AntiVirus 3
       AVAST!
       VET antiviral 8.2
       Integrity Master




Rating

       1-4, 1=poor 4=very good

Norton F-PROT IBM Solomon
  3     3     3     2 ... Installation
  2     4     3     3 ... Ease of use
  2     3     3     3 ... Help systems
  3     3     3     4 ... Compatibility
  3     3     4     3 ... Company Stability
  2     3     2     3 ... Company Support
  2     3     2     3 ... Documentation
  2     4     4     4 ... Hardware required
  2     4     3     4 ... Performance
  4     3     2     2 ... Availability
  1     2     2     3 ... Local Support