F-PROT 3.00 pre-release 

The major changes in F-PROT version 3 compared to version 2 are the following:

    1) The program combines the macro-virus scanning ability of F-MACROW
       with F-PROT in one program.

    2) The scanning technology itself has been improved, and the program now
       detects significantly more viruses that version 2 did.  2.28 would
       detect just over 10,000 different viruses, but 3.00 detects nearly
       16,000 DOS/Windows viruses, over 1,000 Trojans and over 2,000 Word
       and Excel viruses, for a total of over 19,000.

    3) Version 2 was a 16-bit program, compiled with Borland's C compiler,
       but version 3.00 is a 32-bit DOS-extender program, compiled with
       Watcom C and uses the CauseWay DOS extender.

    4) Version 3.00 requires DOS 3 or better, and at least a 80386, where
       the previous version would work on a 8088, running DOS 2.  We know
       that a small minority of our former users will not be able to use
       version 3 for this reason, but unfortunately there is nothing we can
       do about this.

    5) The VIRSTOP program has been discontinued, and further updates to it
       will not be provided.  Instead we offer a VxD replacement for those
       using Windows '95, named F-StopW.  This program (unlike the old
       VIRSTOP) should have the same detection capabilities as the main
       scanner in F-PROT itself.

    6) F-PROT 3.0 is now able to scan inside .ZIP and .ARJ archives, without
       having to rely on an external program.

The F-PROT 3.00 pre-release anti-virus package consists of several files,
which are:

        F-PROT.EXE    The main program
        SIGN.DEF      DOS/Windows virus search/disinfection information
        MACRO.DEF     Word/Excel virus search/disinfection information
        ENGLISH.TX0   language files for English

        SETUPFS.EXE   A self-installing version of the F-STOPW VXD
                      for Windows '95 users.

	*.TXT         Some documentation files.

Please note: This is a pre-release, not the official release, which is
             probably around a week away.  We hope the program is free of
             errors, we cannot guarantee that - please report any "bugs"
             you may find.

             The documentation is not yet finished and although users of
             F-PROT 2.x should not have any great difficulties in using the
             program as it is, others might want to wait until the
             official release is out.

If you have any questions or problems with this pre-release, the best way
to contact us is via E-mail to support@complex.is