Forum for F-Prot

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I found no forum on the F-Prot website.

I just subscribed to alt.comp.anti-virus, and there is just 1 post on
F-Prot, a newbie answered.

Where is a useful forum for F-Prot questions?

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
I found no forum on the F-Prot website.

I just subscribed to alt.comp.anti-virus, and there is just 1 post
on F-Prot, a newbie answered.

Where is a useful forum for F-Prot questions?
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Actually, comp.virus is a very good group, and the author of F-Prot
often pops in there.
 
ms wrote in said:
I just subscribed to alt.comp.anti-virus, and there is just 1 post on
F-Prot, a newbie answered.
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Try this:
<http://google.com/groups?as_q=F-prot&as_ugroup=alt.comp.anti-virus&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100>
or: <http://makeashorterlink.com/?F266523C6>

and:
<http://google.com/groups?num=100&scoring=d&q=F-prot&btnG=Google+Search>

else: Check out the forums (not Usenet, but newsgroup/server
interface) at grc.com, see <http://grc.com/discussions.htm>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Actually, comp.virus is a very good group, and the author of F-Prot
often pops in there.
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alt.comp.virus, I guess you mean. comp.virus is dormant.
 
alt.comp.virus, I guess you mean. comp.virus is dormant.
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Yep, I believe you're right. It's been awhile since I peeked into
either of them, so I confused the two.
 
Actually, comp.virus is a very good group, and the author of F-Prot
often pops in there.
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Actually, I
may pop in just about anywhere that F-PROT is mentioned ;-)

-frisk

Fridrik Skulason Frisk Software International phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT E-mail: (e-mail address removed) fax: +354-540-7401
 
Actually, I
may pop in just about anywhere that F-PROT is mentioned ;-)

-frisk
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</snip>

Fridrik,
Sorry to ask but it's been doing my head in for ages........ why
"Frisk"?? (reminds me of Customs and Excise for some reason, lol).

--

Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)
 
Bjorn said:
Try this:
<http://google.com/groups?as_q=F-prot&as_ugroup=alt.comp.anti-virus&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100>
or: <http://makeashorterlink.com/?F266523C6>

and:
<http://google.com/groups?num=100&scoring=d&q=F-prot&btnG=Google+Search>

else: Check out the forums (not Usenet, but newsgroup/server
interface) at grc.com, see <http://grc.com/discussions.htm>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
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Thanks, Bjorn. That and the above post from the author, show that there
is some activity over time for F-Prot on alt.comp.anti-virus.

Mike Sa
 
Fridrik said:
snip
Actually, I
may pop in just about anywhere that F-PROT is mentioned ;-)

-frisk

Fridrik Skulason Frisk Software International phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT E-mail: (e-mail address removed) fax: +354-540-7401
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I was just told on alt.comp.virus that my error message is actually part
of F-Prot, and I should contact the company.

This is the problem:
About 4 months ago, I ran F prot and it ran fine.

I ran F-Prot a few days ago.

I clicked Scan, and left the screen while it was running. It
started scannning my C root, so everything looked OK.

When I got back later, it had stopped with this screen:
---------------
CauseWay DOS Extender v3.49 Copyright 1992-99 Michael Devore.
All rights reserved.rt - 5 December 2003 @ 17:46
Exception: 0E, Error code: 0004
¦Program version: 3.14b
EAX=8360585D EBX=004058B4 ECX=00000004 EDX=AB3DD03D ESI=AB3DD03D
EDI=836056B9 EBP=83605670 ESP=835967D0 EIP=8350E42D EFL=00010282
¦VIRUS SIGNATURE FILES
CS=018F-7CB02000 DS=0197-7CB02000 ES=0197-7CB02000
FS=0197-7CB02000 GS=019F-xxxxxxxx SS=0197-7CB02000
¦MACRO.DEF created 1 December 2003
CR0=00000000 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 TR=0000
¦Search: Local hard disks
Info flags=00008018
¦Files: Attempt to identify files
Writing CW.ERR file....
¦No viruses found in memory.
CauseWay error 09 : Unrecoverable exception. Program terminated.
¦
¦Scanning C:
¦C:\WINDOWS\WIN386.SWP Not scanned (in use by another application)
¦C:\INSURE\SAFEFE~1\EICAR.COM Infection: EICAR_Test_File
¦C:\INSURE\SAFEFE~1\WINKILL.EXE is a destructive program
¦C:\INSURE\SAFEFE~1\GAMES\MINIVI~1.EXE
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I have a C partition and a D partition.
It seems F-Prot terminated inprocess and never completed the scan.

If OE means Outlook Express, I uninstalled the W98 default last
week. Winkill is a program for process view, not destructive.

What is the meaning of this screen?

How to fix it so F-Prot scans normally?

Since this is part of F-Prot, can you answer here directly?

Mike
 
Actually, I
may pop in just about anywhere that F-PROT is mentioned ;-)
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When I downloaded fprot for dos I downloaded the program archives
which contained old virus definitions, so I had to download the latest
virus definitions too.

I am on a dial-up modem so I did not like that I had to download big
definition files which were not uptodate and then download the newest
virus definitions too.

Couldn't you update the program archives every day so people would
automatically get the latest virus definitions when they download the
program?

If updating the program archives every day (or every time the a new
version of the definition files are released) is impossible you could
at least remove the old definition files from the program archive and
make clear on the web site that people need to download both the
program and the latest definition files.

(It was months since I downloaded the program so you may have changed
this already.)

Thanks for a good and free program anyway.
 
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