PCINOCLN.RVW  931111
                               Comparison Review
 
Company and product:
 
Cheyenne Software
55 Bryant Avenue
Roslyn, NY   11576
USA
800-243-9462
516-484-5110
fax: 516-484-3493
InocuLAN
 
Summary: menu front end and LAN additions for IRIS AntiVirus
 
Cost                          
 
Rating (1-4, 1 = poor, 4 = very good)
      "Friendliness"
            Installation      
            Ease of use       
            Help systems      
      Compatibility           
      Company
            Stability         
            Support           
      Documentation           
      Hardware required       
      Performance             
      Availability            
      Local Support           
 
General Description:
 
A repackaging of IRIS AntiVirus (cf PCANTIVP.RVW and PCANTIVR.RVW) with a menu
interface and NetWare messaging, logging and NLM features.
 
                  Comparison of features and specifications
 
 
 
User Friendliness
 
Installation
 
The package is shipped on two unprotected 1.44M or 1.2M floppies.  Installation
as an NLM is available only in automated form; installation on a workstation or
server is available either automated, or manual.  Automated installation will
create entries in the AUTOEXEC.BAT for PREVENT, IMMUNE and EXAMINE. 
Optionally, a recovery disk may be created which backs up system areas and
files from the hard disk.
 
Ease of use
 
Operation of the IRIS files is automated through the InocuLAN menu.  There are
few options in any case, so use should not be difficult regardless of
circumstances.
 
Help systems
 
On-screen help is available.
 
Compatibility
 
The LAN features are for NetWare only.  In testing, PREVENT has been fairly
intrusive in regard to fairly normal applications use.
 
Company Stability
 
Cheyenne has recently been showing a much stronger presence in the market.
 
Company Support
 
The usual.
 
Documentation
 
A "Supervisor Guide and Reference," several copies of a "User Guide" and
several copies of a "Quick Reference Card" are included in the package.  The
"Supervisor Guide" is the master reference, with the others being subsets of
it.  The text is quite simple, with several sections being essentially repeated
up to three times with very minor differences.  There is little in the package
that should present any difficulties, but there is little in the manual to help
if they arise.  A section on general virus information starts with a clear
statement of what a virus is, and how it infects ... and ends in less than a
page.
 
System Requirements
 
NetWare 2.x or 3.x.
 
Performance
 
InocuLAN is basically a LAN version, and menu front end, for the IRIS AntiVirus
product (cf. PCANTIVR.RVW and PCANTIVP.RVW).  Besides the LAN features and
menu, additional items are the ability to scan Macintosh files on the server
and the preparation of a recovery disk, with hard disk and system information. 
(Note that the manual initially suggested saving system info to the hard disk
itself:  this is of limited use in recovering a deleted hard disk.)
 
Local Support
 
None provided.
 
Support Requirements
 
The package has limited options so support requirements should not be high.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1993  PCINOCLN.RVW  931111

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roberts@decus.ca           rslade@vcn.bc.ca           rslade@vanisl.decus.ca
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it - J. Gilmore
Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94663-2 (800-SPRINGER)