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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> > On another topic:
> >      There is a new Linux version of F-Prot available. (Anti-Virus). 
> > It is available as a .tar.gz package as well as RedHat and Debian.
> > This was much easier to install than the previous one. It is a statically
> > compiled executable, and runs very well in BL2.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >          Ron
> 
> Many thanks.  We have been using the DOS version, which checks for both 
> DOS and Windows viruses.  Are there also linux viruses?  

    I guess there may be, but it is of interest to me because I move stuff
continuously between Linux and DOS partitions, so I use F-Prot for both
on a regular basis.

> Does the linux version run better or faster than the DOS version and do 
> they share the actual virus lists?

   The scan engine is the same, so the speed will be only dependent on
your machine speed.   And yes, they do use the same virus signature files,
which I update manually, on both systems, at least weekly.
 
> (I had better not let my partner know about this quite yet as he is 
> capable of spending a couple of days playing with it and writing scripts 
> to run it in various modes).

   The command line switches are the same for both OS, but I have also
written scripts to scan, for instance, my email.
 
Regards,
         Ron 

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