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- Installation
-
- Installation of F-PROT is fairly simple, and can either be done manually
- or semi-automatically.
-
- Manual installation involves copying all the files which make up the
- package to a separate directory on the hard disk or on a network server.
- One line is then added to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to load the VIRSTOP.EXE
- program. It is assumed that anyone installing the program manually knows
- how to create directories and use a text editor, so this will not be
- explained here.
-
- The semi-automatic installation assumes that F-PROT is present on a diskette,
- and the intention is to install it on the hard disk. To install, you run
- the program and select the "Install" function from the initial menu.
-
- You will then be presented with a menu offering four choices:
-
- Language
-
- The program is available in several different languages, with more on the
- way. When F-PROT.EXE is run it searches for *.TX0 and VIR-HELP.* files,
- which contain all the necessary texts in each language. If your version
- has multiple such files, the "Language" option can be used to specify which
- language to use. This information will be stored in the SETUP.F2 file.
- See the file LANGUAGE.DOC for further information on the various languages.
-
- The default language depends on the country information returned by DOS -
- for example if both the English and German language files are provided,
- but the current country is Austria, the German language would be used by
- default. You should select the correct language, before installing
- VIRSTOP.EXE, so the correct version of VIRSTOP.EXE will be created.
-
- Setup
-
- This option is intended to tailor the program to specific tastes. In
- future versions it might allow the user to change the color of the screen,
- and make other similar changes, but currently it is only used to select if
- the list of viruses should be displayed line-by-line or column-by-column.
-
- Install
-
- Selecting this options has two effects. The package will be copied to the
- hard disk, unless it is already there. VIRSTOP.EXE will be modified, so
- that it contains the correct texts for the current language.
-
- VIRSTOP.EXE
-
- The operation of this program (the resident part of F-PROT) is described
- in the VIRSTOP.DOC file. Selecting this option on a stand-alone machine
- has the effect of adding one line at the beginning of AUTOEXEC.BAT. By
- default, this line is
-
- C:\F-PROT\VIRSTOP
-
- If the package had just been installed on a different directory it will be
- used instead.
-
- Installation on networked machines is more complicated, and cannot (yet)
- be done automatically. VIRSTOP.EXE must be loaded after the network
- software, and generally a single copy would be installed on a server, so
- that every single machine does not need to be updated when a new version
- of F-PROT is available.
-
- Starting with version 2.01 the VIRSTOP program can also be loaded from
- CONFIG.SYS, as a device driver. To do that you need to place a command like
- the following in the CONFIG.SYS file.
-
- DEVICE=C:\F-PROT\VIRSTOP.EXE
-
- or, if you are using DOS 5, you may use:
-
- DEVICEHIGH=C:\F-PROT\VIRSTOP.EXE
-
- However, as mentioned above - if you are using certain types of network
- software, such as PC-NFS or Novell Netware, you MUST load the program from
- AUTOEXEC.BAT, after the network software is loaded.
-