Central Point Anti-Virus 1.x

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Central Point Anti-Virus 1.x

Central Point Anti-Virus was a DOS-based antivirus program developed originally by an Israel company, CARMEL Software Engineering Ltd. as "Turbo Anti-Virus", and licensed by Central Point Software Inc. It was the basis for Microsoft's Anti-Virus for DOS and Windows (MSAV and MWAV). In 1994 it was acquired by Symantec Corporation and merged into Norton Antivirus.

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tarlabnor

>was a DOS-based antivirus program developed by Central Point Software

Actually it was licensed from CARMEL Software Engineering Ltd. (a firm from Israel, the developer of Turbo Anti-Virus). You can find it's authors names in CPAV.EXE - Yuval Sherman & Eli Shapira, as well as CARMEL string. Central Point had no time to create an antivirus from scratch, they needed to counter Symantec's Norton AntiVirus asap.

02k-guy

"You can find it's authors names in CPAV.EXE - Yuval Sherman & Eli Shapira, as well as CARMEL string."

Interesting !

SomeGuy

Thanks for pointing that out. I have updated the product description. This is exactly the kind of history about a product that we want to preserve.