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- 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:
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- 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
-