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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>,
        <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
Cc: <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: antivirus measures
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:11:21 +0100
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> I use F-PROT for ALL DOS virus scanning needs.  Any resident
> scanner gives a false sense of security.  Only regular scanning
> with a real scanner can catch all viruses.  I heavily recommend
> doing scanning from a write protected disk with FPROT on it.  The
> disk MUST be prepared on a "guaranteed virus-free" system
> however.  I usually prepare my FPROT boot disk from Linux.  I
> just unzip FPROT into Linux and then format a DOS floppy and copy
> the needed stuff to the disk.  I've set up a simple script to do
> it all.  Note also that you must reboot the system by hitting
> RESET and not CTRL-ALT-DEL as some viruses intercept the
> CTRL-ALT-DEL call.  If anyone wants more info on how to
> "virus-proof" their system, they can contact me via email.  BTW,
> FPROT is *FREE* for non-commercial use.

There's a shareware version out there.....right?
And aren't there any Linux viruses?

	Yeep