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A. Ivannikov, director of Computerising Center of the
Ministry of Education (left) is accepting the licence from Y. Lyashchenko,
the first deputy director general of DialogueScience, Inc (centre) in
presence of the Ministry of Education representative, I. Smolnikova, the
leading specialist of the R&D dept. Computerising deparment.
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On June 24 of this year the licence was delivered to A. Ivannikov,
director of Computerising Center of the Ministry of Education.
About the aims of the charity action S. Antimonov, director general of
DialogueScience, Inc said in his speech at the IX international
conference "Applying new technologies in education" in the city of
Troitsk (Moscow reg.) on July 1-2, 1998 arranged by Bitic New
Technologies in Education fund.
- Provide computers used within educational organisations with antivirus
defence. Decrease the damage (including financial losses) caused by
possible waste of data and program infected by computer virus attacks.
Mass and intensive data and program exchange between pupils (on floppy
discs, CDs, through the Internet) makes it easy for viruses to spread
widely beyond educational organisations. Many epidemics of computer viruses
started in schools and institutes. Using antivirus programs in educational
organisations will help to limit computer virus spreading in the country.
- Decrease the number of viruses created by high-school children and
students of the first years (a well-known "childish disease" of beginners
in programming).
- Involve schoolchildren and students in creative activity of writing some
useful for society programs and not in that of developing destructive
viruses.
And there are examples to follow. Scanner Doctor Web repeatedly showed the
highest results in the comparative tests held in 1996-1998 by Virus
Bulletin, a respected international magazine. ADinf is the only inspector
in the world using BIOS (not MS-DOS) functions for reading information from
the discs - this very characteristic made it first-place-winning in the
category of inspectors both by its speed and the level of virus detection
(any types of viruses, including stealth viruses). As for universal curing
program ADinf Cure Module, it is a unique antivirus program having no match
in the whole world. The virus' "face" being unknown, the cure module (used
together with ADinf inspector) removes the virus from the infected file in
97% of cases and restores the initial file before the infection exactly
"byte-to-byte".
- Show the inexperienced computer users all the merits and advantages of
using authorised computer program versions: complete delivering of all the
files (including documentation and methodical materials); periodical and
timely version updating; easy and fast consulting and technical support
etc. Having finished school or graduated from a university such a user will
be conceptually prepared to use program products effectively under the
conditions of a civilised market.
- In terms of the whole country increase the level of antivirus defence
against new computer virus attacks - "shut" newly emerged virus epidemics
quickly and effectively.
When fighting against viral epidemics it is important to react swiftly on
every new challenge of the kind - to develop and supply an antidote against
a new virus both where it was detected and where the virus can get after a
time ("vaccination"). In terms of such a timely detection of new viruses
(both a "home-developed" one and a foreigner) a computer net established
within the Ministry of Education and covering a great part of the country
territory may help significantly. Passing such infected files immediately
to DialogueScience will enable it to react adequately - develop and deliver
urgently to all the authorised antivirus program users some means to
struggle against a new virus.
As a main source of DialogueScience antivirus programs coming into
circulation in the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation the
http://www.informika.ru web
server will be used. To download antivirus programs by
DialogueScience from the server please contact Yury Izhvanov:
yli@informika.ru.
DialogueScience Information Service
E-mail: antivir@DIALS.ru
http://www.antivir.ru
Copyright © 1998 DialogueScience, Inc., Moscow, Russia.
All rights reserved.
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