[ale] Fun things NOT TO DO with F-Prot

[James P. Kinney III]

Sounds like a truly terrible day. Please tell some details of what
happened. I have not had a problem with f-prot, but I mainly use it as
part of MailScanner to clear out the disease in emails.



On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 22:42, Bruce Griffis wrote:
> It's been a LOOOONG day! Anyway, if any of you decide to mess with F-Prot - I 
> found it works fine for /home directories. Just don't do a "f-prot * -auto 
> -disinf -saferemove" as root from /
> 
> Let's just say I'm happy I started backing up /home and /etc directories 
> before doing so, and would have been even happier if I did a full backup for 
> allowing anti-virus software to "clean and fix" everything. Good thing this 
> is a desktop PC I'm using for learning fun.
> 
> Think I'll skip the anti-virus, or at least read a little more before trying 
> again.
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