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WebScan helps pin down viruses in Internet files

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I USE the Internet a great deal, but live in fear of contaminating my system with a virus that could attach itself to one of the many programs I constantly download onto my PC.

I use Norton AntiVirus to scan all the programs I download after they are on my hard disk, but it would be so much more convenient to be able to scan them as they are downloaded.

Is there any anti-virus software that will do this for me? MICHAEL TSOI Repulse Bay Experts agree that the growing use of the Internet has led to a corresponding rise in computer viruses.

It has surprised me that no anti-virus software maker had come up with a product that will do what you want. Until now, that is.

McAfee Associates, the software maker famous for its top quality virus scanning and other utility programs, has just introduced a program that does exactly this.

Called WebScan, the program is said by McAfee to be able to stop users from downloading virus-infected files from the Internet or other on-line services such as CompuServe or bulletin board services (BBSs).

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