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Tim,

>  I asked the F-Prot people about upgrading from the Dos version to the
>Windows 95 version.  Unfortunatly the versions are handled by different
>companies.  And the Windows 95 verions costs over 10 times as much.  :(

  The detection engine is still by frisk. Command Software just modifys the
program to work as a Netware NLM & created a Win95 VxD for automatic background
checking, along with some other changes.

>  But they say below that the Dos version will work in Win95.  I find
>that sort of hard to believe and was wondering if any has tried it in a
>lab situation.  Does it really work?  Thanks.

  The scanner for the shareware version does work under W95. The TSR won't work
under Win95. The analog for the TSR under Win95 is a VxD which operates
differently. You can have the autoexec.bat file set up to scan the hard drive
when you reboot, under Win95. Currently this is what we're doing in one of our
labs until I finish evaluating various anti-virus vendors to get a W95
compatible VxD. We previously used the shareware version of F-PROT & I was very
happy with it.

  If anyone is interested I can mail you my results when I'm done with my
evaluations. Be warned however, I'm trying to do this in between putting out the
various "fires" that crop up, and I'm not sure just when I'll be completely
done.

  Here's my "Holy Grail" of features I'd like in the package I finally select:

          Automatic checking of downloads from the Internet;
          Cross-operating system versions, DOS, Win3.x, Win95, Netware NLM;
          Background scanning, TSR/VxD;
          Automatic updates of the workstation from the network;
          Scanning within archived (zip) files;
          Automatic detection of Macro viruses;
          Ability to clean Macro viruses;
          Ability to lock the user's configuration to prevent changes;
          Notification over the network of infections/detection.

There's some others, but you get the idea. Some of the other criteria are
subjective, but I've tried to keep the primary "must haves" objective for one to
one comparisons.

  BTW, F-PROT Professional is one of the packages I'm evaluating.

Mark :-)
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