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Article #325Re: Win95 Antivirus for Labs
From: Michael Kessler
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:00
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 > ************************************************************************** Michael Kessler voice (415) 338-1662 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc881,436b3c12d32aac9c X-Google-Attributes: gidfc881,public From: Michael Kessler <mkessler@ceres.SFSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Win95 Antivirus for Labs Date: 1996/06/07 Message-ID: <288EC677ED5@ceres.sfsu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 159109485 sender: Computer Lab Managers <LABMGR@LSV.UKY.EDU> priority: normal comments: ******************************************************** approved-by: List Moderator <LSTOWN@UKCC.UKY.EDU> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII resent-subject: Re: Win95 Antivirus for Labs organization: School of Humanities - SFSU mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: bit.listserv.labmgr x-ph: V4.4@jericho.american.edu x-mailer: MailBook 95.01.000