F-Secure

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Does anyone use a virus tool called f-secure? I have heard a good report
about it. Does anyone know a good link to it?
 
Magic Rat said:
Does anyone use a virus tool called f-secure? I have heard a
good report about it. Does anyone know a good link to it?
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Excellent group to read through is
alt.comp.anti-virus
 
Boomer said:
Magic Rat said:


Excellent group to read through is
alt.comp.anti-virus
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Curious, is f-prot and f-secure the same thing/product/software/company?
 
Curious, is f-prot and f-secure the same thing/product/software/company?
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No they are not. F-secure is a Finnish company and Frisk is an
Icelandic company. F-secure uses f-prot engine in its av-products like
it uses Kaspersky labs engine. But they are not the same company.

Jari
 
thing/product/software/company?

No they are not. F-secure is a Finnish company and Frisk is an
Icelandic company. F-secure uses f-prot engine in its av-products like
it uses Kaspersky labs engine. But they are not the same company.
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Right, doesnt F-secure use 3 antivirus engines? F prot's, Kaspersky's and
it's own .
Jari
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Aaron
 
Mark said:
You sure about that?
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Not now that I've read some of the other replies. ;) I thought they were
at least related via the same engine, but now I'm quite in the dark.
Maybe I was thinking of a windows version of f-prot ???
 
Mark Warner said:
You sure about that?

http://www.f-prot.com
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This has the freeware DOS version and a shareware Windows
version called something like F-Prot for Windows. They use the
same detection engine and .def files.
http://www.f-secure.com/
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This is a separate company which licenses the F-Prot detection
engine for use in a commercial product called F-Secure. This
also includes the detection engine from Kaspersky Anti-Virus to
give extra protection.


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On 24 Sep 2003 21:43:53 +0800, Aaron
That's the theory anyway :)
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It's the reality as well, of course. Oddly enough, there have been
test results on occasion at Uni Hamburg and Magdeburg where F-Secure
didn't fare quite as well as KAV alone. But the superiority of KAV and
F-Secure detection over F-Prot is without question, even though F-Prot
is quite good.


Art
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Right, doesnt F-secure use 3 antivirus engines? F prot's, Kaspersky's and
it's own .
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Yes, but only with Windows XP for some reason. Despite the 3 engines
F-secure AV is not a resource hog and does not slow down the machine.
Good programming.
Jari
 
Does anyone use a virus tool called f-secure? I have heard a good report
about it. Does anyone know a good link to it?
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The program is called F-Prot and can be downloaded directly from the
website www.F-Prot.com. To use teh free version you must run it from
DOS as it will not remove virus files from windows files in use when
windows is running. You will have to boot to DOS from a clean disk,
floppy or CD and run F-Prot from there. I use it regularly and have
removed several viruses that I diden't even know I had.
Good luck
 
George Richards said:
The program that the OP is looking for is F-Secure. You
can find a review of
it and some other ant-virus programs at
http://www.wilders.org/anti_viruses.htm .
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On a side note, I believe f-secure uses f-prot's engine.
It's also my understanding that F-Prot makes most of their
money by selling their engine to other AV companies, not
from selling F-Prot AV to end users, which helps explains
why F-Prot (for Windows) has a clunky interface and few
features, but excels at detecting viruses, and why their
commercial license fees are so ridiculously cheap. (Oh, now
I really have to apologize for mentioning a non-freeware
version)

My $0.02,
D "is it Friday yet? It's gotta be Friday, right?" McD.
 
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