Re: Virus scanner *solely* for e-mail?

From: Fridrik Skulason (frisk_at_complex.is)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: 12 Mar 2004 01:10:20 -0800

N. Miller <nsm@blackhole.aosake.net> wrote in message news:<MPG.1ab9a61ae53470fe989dbf@msnews.microsoft.com>...

> the F-Prot for DOS on demand scanner called by Mercury Mail as a task,

I am a bit surprised to hear that anyone is using our DOS version for
that purpose. It should probably work in most cases though, but it is
probably a bit slow - may be OK for a private end-user, though.

Note that the DOS version has certain limitations - for example it has
problems with long file (and directory) names under NT and XP. This
is
not a flaw in the DOS version as such - any other DOS application has
the same limitations. (And of course the F-PROT Windows cersion and
the Windows command-line version do not have those limitations)

Anyhow, just be aware of any potential problems, if you use the
program for something it was never intended to handle.

-frisk

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