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"Rx PC: The Anti-Virus Handbook", Janet Endrijonas, 1993, 0-8306-4202-1,
C$59.95
%A   Janet Endrijonas
%C   300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario   L1N 9B6
%D   1993
%G   0-8306-4202-1
%I   McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Osborne
%O   C$59.95 905-430-5000 800-565-5758 fax: 905-430-5020 louisea@McGrawHill.ca
%P   185
%T   "Rx PC: The Anti-Virus Handbook"
 
Endrijonas is a writer and reporter, so I had relatively low expectations for
the book.  In fact, though, the contributions of Ross Greenberg and Aryeh
Goretsky as advisors must have had considerable influence, since there are a
number of reasons to prefer this book over the virus books by non-specialists.
 
Although there is enough bad information to make the book unreliable, there is
also a good deal of good information.  In addition, the author looked at more
than one or two antiviral programs when reviewing.  (The reviews themselves
are, unfortunately, little more than reproductions of the documentation.  The
discussion of ViruCide, which immediately follows that of VirusScan, does not
note that both programs are functionally identical, being based on the scanning
engine and database of McAfee Associates.)  It is also interesting to note that
the disk included with the book contains, as well as the ubiquitous Scan, the
superlative Integrity Master program.  (For some reason the author is coy about
this, mentioning it only in an appendix.)
 
Ultimately, this book is dated and contains too many errors and contradictions
to recommend as a sole virus text.  For its time and type, however, it was a
very good effort.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKRXPCAV.RVW   960914
 
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