What aspects of an antiviral are *not* important?
Some aspects of antivirals are consistently overrated on published reviews. One such factor is a GUI. After all, say the proponents, a program is only as good as its use. A GUI, the promoters will say, encourages use. That is only true in situations where the GUI aids in the interaction between the program and the user. In many cases the GUI does nothing to assist the user to increase the level of security. In fact, the inclusion of a GUI may be responsible for certain problems in design and documentation. In that case, the user may be given a false sense of security, thinking that the system is using a variety of protection methods, when, in fact, the user may have failed to invoke some of them because their use is not intuitive or obvious. The LAN antiviral seems to be something of a growth market with almost everyone bringing out an NLM version of their product. NLM stands for NetWare Loadable Module, and will only work with Novell NetWare. Network management is always a problem, pa
