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- From: protonen@daimi.aau.dk (Lars J|dal)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: Outdated F-PROT?? (PC)
- Message-ID: <0002.9211121950.AA09997@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 09:54:57 GMT
- Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
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- Nobody seems to answered this, so I'll try...
-
- ajchuah@mtu.edu (Low Profile) writes:
-
- >Frisk and all,
- > I am currently using F-prot 2.04b on my machine and am
- >using Virstop. I haven't had any problems until recently. I wanted
- >to use F-prot 2.05 but since there was some mention on problems, i
- >decided to stick with 2.04b. Anyway, now when i boot up my machine,
- >when it loads Virstop, it gives a message that sounds something like
- >"This version of F-prot is rather old and ..." overall what it is
- >trying to say is the version of f-prot i have is old and that i should
- >replace it. Is this some form of virus, a way of your program
- >notifying me to switch or what? This message comes on the screen
- >without fail for the past 2 weeks. Any help would be great. BTW,
- >what is the scope on the latest version of f-prot? Thanx.
-
- No, it is not a virus or anything like that. It is simply F-prot that
- tells you that you are using an old version of the program and you
- should get a newer if possible. Why? Not because of new options, but
- because the number of viruses grow fast. F-prot seems to be updated
- bimonthly and every new version detects at least 50 (if not 100) new
- viruses. Thus it is important to have a recently-updated program (of
- course this goes for other antivirus programs as well as F-prot). The
- newest version is 2.06a. It is only a couple of days old, so maybe the
- archive sites only have 2.06 (which is a week old).
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