ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus

ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus -- ThunderBYTE's Anti-Virus utility is another excellent client for catching and removing any viruses that may be crawling around your hard drive. Like McAffee's VirusScan, TBAV comes in both Windows 3.x and Windows 95 versions and sports an attractive graphical interface. TBAV runs well in the background but is slightly slower at this than VirusScan. Recently added features for ThunderBYTE include advanced security options, alarm sounds (with WAV audio clips), and detection for platform-specific viruses. One significiant advantage that TBAV has over VirusScan is its on-line documentation listing which explains the nature of thousands of viruses. While nowhere near as comprehensive or detailed as Patricia Hoffman's Virus Information Summary List, TBAV's listing is still more complete than that of VirusScan. In terms of performance, TBAV and VirusScan are very similar, with VirusScan having a slight edge in background processing. Both apps are updated frequently with New virus data files. In other words, deciding between these two clients will likely once again come down to your own individual preferences. Pros: Easy to use, scans in the background, cool graphical interface, virus information Cons: Doesn't remove (or scan) viruses as well as F-Prot, a bit slower than VirusScan New: Security options, alarm sounds, memory scanning, now detects Windows 95/NT specific viruses Version Reviewed: 7.02 Date of Review: 6/27/96 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud