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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Export restrictions of anti-virus software?
- Message-ID: <0007.9301121242.AA22066@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:10:21 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
-
- >A check with Ottawa resulted in the statement that F-PROT was export
- >restricted (controlled) as shareware did not meet the criteria of this
- >general "software" note... Therefore SCAN by McAfee also would not
- >meet the requirements.
-
- Extremely silly, of course....not that it affects either us or McAfee, of
- course - we export our programs to Canada, not from there, but I find it
- extremely hard to believe that anybody takes this regulation seriously.
-
- Of course, there is not that much Canadian anti-virus software around, is
- there :-)
-
- - -frisk
- Fridrik Skulason Frisk Software International phone: +354-1-694749
- Author of F-PROT E-mail: frisk@complex.is fax: +354-1-28801
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