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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Virus Protection (PC)
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Date: 4 Jan 91 14:53:35 GMT
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sulistio@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
>Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu wrote in VIRUS-L volume 205:

>> The one negative comment about F-Prot is that the updates appear to be less
>> frequent than one might wish.

Well, yes, I admit I send out updates less frequently than would be desirable,
but I expect to send out a new version every 4 weeks or so in the future.  The
next version (1.14) should be ready any day now - I am busy adding routines to
detect and remove all the viruses I received at the conference in Hamburg.

>  One other negative comment about F-Prot is:
>
>F-driver.sys does not check drive A for any possible boot sector virus
>when we warm boot the machine.  The V-Shield does check drive A for
>any possible boot sector virus and will denied the warm boot if there
>is any boot sector virus in the floppy drive A.  Hopefully frisk will
>implement this for his next version of F-PROT.  It is a great program.

Sounds like a good idea - I am not sure I will have time to add it in
version 1.14, but if not then it will certainly appear in the next
version after that.

- -frisk