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Nobody seems to answered this, so I'll try...

ajchuah@mtu.edu (Low Profile) writes:

>Frisk and all,
>             I am currently using F-prot 2.04b on my machine and am
>using Virstop.  I haven't had any problems until recently.  I wanted
>to use F-prot 2.05 but since there was some mention on problems, i
>decided to stick with 2.04b.  Anyway, now when i boot up my machine,
>when it loads Virstop, it gives a message that sounds something like
>"This version of F-prot is rather old and ..." overall what it is
>trying to say is the version of f-prot i have is old and that i should
>replace it.  Is this some form of virus, a way of your program
>notifying me to switch or what?  This message comes on the screen
>without fail for the past 2 weeks.  Any help would be great.  BTW,
>what is the scope on the latest version of f-prot?  Thanx.

No, it is not a virus or anything like that. It is simply F-prot that
tells you that you are using an old version of the program and you
should get a newer if possible.  Why? Not because of new options, but
because the number of viruses grow fast. F-prot seems to be updated
bimonthly and every new version detects at least 50 (if not 100) new
viruses. Thus it is important to have a recently-updated program (of
course this goes for other antivirus programs as well as F-prot).  The
newest version is 2.06a. It is only a couple of days old, so maybe the
archive sites only have 2.06 (which is a week old).

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