Look Software Systems Inc. virus alert products include disk checking utilities.OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 1995--Look Software Systems Inc. announced today that newly released version released version - release 3.33 of their Virus ALERT antivirus software See antivirus program. (tool) antivirus software - Programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest kind scans executable files and boot blocks for a list of known viruses. for PC Dos PC DOS Personal Computer Disk Operating System (IBM) computers will now include a Fat Allocation Table (FAT table) check and disk surface check with every scan for viruses. Virus ALERT will be one of the first antivirus programs to offer this feature as a default setting. While scanning for viruses, Virus ALERT now also checks for lost clusters, cross linked clusters, invalid cluster numbers, invalid allocation sizes, and fragmented files. The filenames of all files with FAT table problems, plus the total number of fragmented files, will be listed at the end of the scan. FAT problems cause irratic computer behaviour, and while sometimes caused by viruses are more usually caused by computer crashes and software gliches. A fragmented file means the file is spread all over the disk instead of in one location. Extensive fragmentation of files usually causes degraded computer performance. Virus ALERT will not fix FAT table and fragmentation problems, just alert the user to their existence. Another Innovation for Look Software Look Software released Virus ALERT Plus today. Targeted for Internet, BBS (1) (Bulletin Board System) A computer system used as an information source and forum for a particular interest group. They were widely used in the U.S. , and E-Mail users (Corporate or Personal), Virus ALERT Plus includes "TESTER", a superior technology enabling full virus scans virus scan Informatics A computer program that can ID code–geek speak for computer program subroutines–often found in computer viruses. See Computer virus. both inside and outside archived files which have been downloaded from the Internet, BBSs or Inter Office E-mail "Sleuth", a component of "TESTER", automatically process a predefined directory of downloaded files. TESTER can be integrated with the standard version of Virus ALERT. An excellent enhancement to Virus ALERT and TESTER, is VASCHED (see below). Look Software also announces the release of "VASCHED", a universal task scheduler This article is about the scheduled tasks component in Windows. For job scheduling in computing, see Scheduling (computing) Task Scheduler is a component of Microsoft Windows that allows users to schedule launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time capable of scheduling any task(s) which can be stated as Dos or as a batch file (1) A file containing data that is processed or transmitted from beginning to end. (2) A file containing instructions that are executed one after the other from beginning to end. See BAT file and shell script. , including scheduling any task for Virus ALERT products. Vasched can handle up to 100 separate schedules at a time. Virus ALERT version 3.33 is available immediately, priced at $69.95. Virus Alert Plus is $89.95, and VASCHED IS $39.95. Corporate 10-packs of Virus Alert Plus are $299.95. Call (613) 837-2151, Fax: (613) 837-5572 CONTACT: Look Software Systems Inc. Shep Daniel, 1-800-267-0778 |
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