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...important to stay healthy during the holiday season--even for a computer--you may want to give gifts of anti-virus software, which protect computer against malicious little bugs that may make a system totally unusable...
Also packaged with MS-DOS 6.0 are an improved backup program, an anti-virus utility, and hard disk management commands taken from the popular Norton Utilities...
...There are many anti-virus programs available, some of them free, that protect against Michelangelo. People could just not turn on their computers March 6, or set their clocks forward a day," he said...
Testing Prisoners. Like other explorers, Du Pont's chemists often discover not what they had set out to find but something far more intriguing. One notable case is the company's new anti-virus drug, Symmetrel, which derives from a compound of organic chemicals that has a uniquely diamond-shaped molecular structure and is called adamantane. First formulated by a pair of Yugoslav scientists in 1941, adaman-tane had long been a laboratory curiosity around the world-because of its unusual structure-when Du Pont asked its men to search out uses...
...that those who took pills made of the compound were much less likely than others to succumb to Asian flu. Conclusion: the drug does not kill the virus but inhibits its multiplication by preventing it from entering the cells of the body. Since scientists until recently considered an anti-virus drug a medical impossibility, the new Du Pont drug has revolutionary possibilities and may lead Du Pont into an area it has never before tried. Copeland, for one, has special reason to be pleased: 20 years ago he proposed in writing that Du Pont turn its enormous research potential...