[ale] OT: F-Prot experiences?

[Keith R. Watson]

At 20:46 7/21/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Guys,
>
>These days, I'm forced to do a bit of work on Windows XP. I'm in the
>market for a virus scanner, and thought of F-Prot, only because I've seen
>it mentioned as a Linux based option in the past, and I like to support
>companies that support and produce software for Linux.
>
>Any experience out there with their for-Win product?  How would it compare
>to something like McAfee or Nortons?
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>John
>
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John,

F-Prot was created by Fridrik Skulason at www.f-prot.com. The F-Prot 
scanning engine is used in a number of products.

F-Prot www.f-prot.com
Command Anti-Virus now Authentium http://www.authentium.com/
F-Secure http://www.datafellows.com

F-Prot from www.f-prot.com is the version we have been talking about for 
Linux. They also have a Windows version.

I use the Windows version at home on a W98 box and on several other systems 
I maintain. I have a commercial license which costs $50 for 10 licenses. It 
works well on stand alone workstations but is not as full featured as 
McAfee or Symantec when used in an enterprise environment.

I used Command Anti-Virus around 1995-1996 (before they merged with 
Authentium) and had great difficulty getting it to update properly in an 
enterprise environment. We are currently using McAfee at work and ePolicy 
Orchestrator to manage it. They have been having some difficulty creating 
policy groups in ePolicy Orchestrator. The current policy doesn't allow for 
exclusions so it has been moving and deleting some of my tools. I'm glad I 
have good backups.

keith



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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
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