[ale] F-Prot questions

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed May 28 22:18:25 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:05, Bruce Griffis wrote:
> I've installed F-Prot and am starting to mess with it a little. I'm using a 
> dual-boot PC, sharing Word and Excel files (OO on my PC, MS Office on 2 
> others) and have a few Win PC's in the house sharing the network - so, I'm a 
> little concerned about virus's, worms, and trojans.
> 
> Have any of you messed with anti-virus software? Prefer one over another? 
> Recommend any source for wrappers to make the command line interface a little 
> simpler for a beginner? 

F-Prot was the virus scanner I used back when I was running/abusing DOS.
The free version for Linux is very good. I use it on Samba mounted
drives to clear virus woes on windows boxes. 

Check out XFPROT for a gui wrapper for f-prot.
http://web.tiscali.it/sharp/xfprot/
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