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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: alt.security
- Subject: Re: F-prot (was: Virus Programs ForSale)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.181703.20039@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:17:03 GMT
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- In article <1jnlfeINNc0l@shelley.u.washington.edu>, fetrow@biostat.washington.edu (David Fetrow) writes:
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- | I'd like to put in a plug for an inexpensive virus checker: f-prot. It's
- | available via anonymous FTP, is quite cheap ( <$1/copy for most of us ) and
- | has detected/cleaned several virii for us (and yes, we have lost disks to
- | virii in the past; public PC labs in schools are more prone to virii than
- | most places).
- |
- | Anonymous FTP site: risc.ua.edu (130.160.4.7)
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- I concur, this is fine software! We had a site license, but corporate
- negotiated a corporate license with someone else so we use that now. We
- were happy with f-prot, and I still use it personally. During the years
- I was moderator of c.b.i.p I used it regularly and was happy with it.
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- | You don't need to spend a lot of money to get a reasonable degree of protection.
- | My only connection to the program is as a VERY satisfied user.
- |
- | ..and if the author every finds himself in Seattle, he can have a standing
- | ovation from the PC lab staff whenever he wants.
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- Amen. From me, too.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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