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- F-PROT Year 2000 compliance statement
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- The F-PROT anti-virus program only processes dates in the following ways:
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- 1) When generating a report, it requests the current date from the
- operating system and displays it. If the operating system reports the
- wrong date after 1/1/2000, F-PROT will too.
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- 2) The databases included with F-PROT have a limited "lifespan" - The
- program calculates the difference between the current date and the
- release date, and if it is greater than one year, F-PROT will refuse to
- work, saying it is too old to be of use. For this reason, no version of
- F-PROT released before Jan. 1. 1999 will operate after Jan. 1. 2000.
- Depending on the update scedule, we would expect the version in
- distribution on Jan. 1. 2000 to be one that will be released in
- September 1999 or later. If the operating system reports the wrong
- date after 1/1/2000, F-PROT may refuse to work.
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- In other words, F-PROT is fully Year-2000 compliant, provided that:
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- 1) The computer itself is.
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- 2) The correct date is reported by the operating system.
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- 3) The user is using an up-to-date version of the program.
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