F-prot

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Yes.

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Yes, same here. I use the DOS version on my DOS machines,
since the program as well as its updates are free.

Besides that, I think it is a good program. Their
viruslab always responds promptly whenever I forward
them a file that I find suspicious.

Rgds,
Kim
 
I use the Windoze version on my two home machines, and have been well
satisfied, but recently it missed a backdoor RAT and I was not happy about
that. MS Beta Spyware located and exterminated the beast . . .
 
Chas. said:
I use the Windoze version on my two home machines, and have been well
satisfied, but recently it missed a backdoor RAT and I was not happy about
that. MS Beta Spyware located and exterminated the beast . . .
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A trojan is not a virus, and some products have a stricter definition
than others of what it is their job to detect. F-Prot probably isn't the
only AV that wouldn't have spotted it.
 
Julian said:
A trojan is not a virus, and some products have a stricter definition
than others of what it is their job to detect. F-Prot probably isn't the
only AV that wouldn't have spotted it.
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To that, I´d like to add that once when I "complained" to
F-Prot about some stuff that I expected their AV s/w to have
spotted, they gave me an explanation along the very line that
Chas is suggesting above. A virus is something that is created
to destroy something eventually, whereas other forms of malware
are intended to be of some benefit to its creator and users, i.e.
a kind of utility, however odd it might appear to others.

IMHO, one of the more useful sites when comparing one AV program
vs. another it the Virus Bulletin,
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/about/index.xml
Judging by their VB100%Award, NOD32 seems to be one of the
best, with its "30 passes/3 fails" score, vs. for example
"27/6" for Norton.

I am not IT-literate enough to judge whether this puts NOD32
more definitely ahead of the pack (I haven´t even looked through
the whole list), but "30/3" seemes like good news to me at least.

Rgds,
Kim
 
Hey, I am not complaining -- too loudly. F-Prot has done a great job for me
for a long time.

The problem I have is that it -bills- itself as protecting against X number
of "viruses and Trojans." Says so right on the scanner! So, I was a little
dismayed when told F-Prot doesn't detect trojans.

I have added Prevx to my system on top of MS Beta Spycatcher (or whatever
it's called), Spybot, Ad-Aware and Outpost Firewall. I suppose there are
many people who could negotiate their way through all of that, but short of
throwing the 'puter away and using an abacus, I don't know what else to do!
 
Chas. said:
Hey, I am not complaining -- too loudly. F-Prot has done a great job for me
for a long time.

The problem I have is that it -bills- itself as protecting against X number
of "viruses and Trojans." Says so right on the scanner! So, I was a little
dismayed when told F-Prot doesn't detect trojans.

I have added Prevx to my system on top of MS Beta Spycatcher (or whatever
it's called), Spybot, Ad-Aware and Outpost Firewall. I suppose there are
many people who could negotiate their way through all of that, but short of
throwing the 'puter away and using an abacus, I don't know what else to do!
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There are a few really old DOS trojans that it does detect, or at least
did when I tested it a few years ago. But I guess when the whole spyware
/ malware thing took off they decided not to try to keep up with it.
 
I suggest you download and try F-PROT for MsDOS. Start the computer
with an external DOS boot disk, then scan from the C:> prompt. F-PROT
sometimes refuses to scan a file because it is in-use by Windows. Running
the computer with Windows temporarily disabled will let it scan all files
in the computer.
 
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