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Re: Win95 Antivirus for Labs

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From: Michael Kessler
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
 Just a comment on price.  F-Prot for Windows 95/NT/3.1 is not as
cheap as F-Prot for DOS which costs 75 cents per station per year
for educational insititutions. F-Prot Professional is far more
expensive than that but cheaper than most other products because
of a inexpensive annual renewal policy.

On  6 Jun 96 at 11:51, MARSHA WILLIAMS wrote:

> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >We are upgrading our labs to Windows-95 this summer, and we're ready to
> >order our Antivirus.  We have been using Norton Antivirus, but we
> >would like to know if anyone has any recommendations before we order.
>
> We also bought Dr. Solomon's Toolkit. The educational site license is not
> as inexpensive as F-Prot (what can possibly be less that that!) but
> otherwise quite reasonable. Also, when we bought it, this was the only
> program that even saw the virus (Batman2) that was chewing up our
> workstations and servers, much less cleaned it and stopped the spread. (The
> other major virus programs mentioned didn't even see the virus.) It is
> doing a very good job in the lab in the two months we have had it. It scans
> the floppies automatically when the student tries any kind of read or write
> involving the floppy. It renames infected files automatically with a .Vxx
> extension if they can't be cleaned. According to one lab assistant, it
> paused in the middle of an Internet download; informed her the download was
> infected; offered to clean it; did so; and resumed the download. It is
> running on the server, DOS, Windows, Windows95 and there is a Windows NT
> workstation version. No Macintosh yet, though.
>
> *******************************************************************
> Marsha Williams                             willia97@ccvax.mmc.edu
> Director Information Management
> Meharry Medical College                       VOICE:(615) 327-6307
>


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College of Humanities                        MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University               FAX (415) 338-7030
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
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