Re: IC TC5504P

Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote:
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> I thought that
> some detectors were "holistic", could detect many variants of a
> virus. Just not all variants...

ITYM "heuristic".

Mine is EZAntivirus from Computer Associates which claims to to be such.


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