Opinions on F-Prot AntiVirus

Has anyone had any experience with f-prot antivirus? I'm considering it for a
small business. Is it a good solution or is it lacking something other than
bells and whistles? Thanks.

opensourceav? wrote:

> Has anyone had any experience with f-prot antivirus? I'm considering
> it for a small business. Is it a good solution or is it lacking
> something other than bells and whistles? Thanks.

I have used it for years on all my Windows machines and I put it on
clients' machines. I like it a lot. It does a good job and is very
light on system resources. It is also very reasonably priced; the home
version allows installation on 4 computers for $30 and the corporate
version allows installation on 10 computers for $50. They also have
antivirus solutions for servers and for Linux.

It has not got a fancy interface, but it does the job and updates are
very frequent.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

In news:ul7%23qrJcFHA.2124@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
Malke <notreally@invalid.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> opensourceav? wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had any experience with f-prot antivirus? I'm considering
>> it for a small business. Is it a good solution or is it lacking
>> something other than bells and whistles? Thanks.
>
> I have used it for years on all my Windows machines and I put it on
> clients' machines. I like it a lot. It does a good job and is very
> light on system resources. It is also very reasonably priced; the home
> version allows installation on 4 computers for $30 and the corporate
> version allows installation on 10 computers for $50. They also have
> antivirus solutions for servers and for Linux.
>
> It has not got a fancy interface, but it does the job and updates are
> very frequent.
>
> Malke

I'll second that. I'm a KAV person myself but I know a few people (not
really clients, just friends in this case) who swear by it and it has decent
ratings as well. To echo what Malke has said it's light on resources and one
of the people who uses it is an elderly lady who hasn't a lot of money and
won't accept my giving her a new computer - the one I gave her last time is
good enough she insists and she only uses it for emailing and casual surfing
and some church chat things. It's an AMD K6-2 500 MHz with 256 MB of RAM
running Windows 98se. At the time I gave it to her I'd recently purchased
F-Prot for another system to play with it and get a feel for it. Having done
so and finding it simple, light, and effective I'd had the system crash
(intentionally??? tweaking has it's risks so I call it intentional but it
was hardly on-purpose really) if I recall and decided I'd send it there with
that installed instead and greedily kept my KAV license for myself. Since
she's upgraded to the new versions every year or so and hasn't ever had a
problem that I can really term viral in nature. At one point, prior to the
more public awareness of spyware, she'd installed a free Bible application
which contained spyware. (Can you imagine the penalty in the afterlife
assuming there is one???) Back then it was real spyware, as in it
transmitted your data and that's all it did, and wasn't really a threat to
her as she didn't do anything really private online and the end result might
have been some wierdo getting off on reading an old lady's spam. Anyhow,
she's since maintained an AdAware application and even happily pays for it.
I see her so seldom I'm inclined to think that it's working well enough for
her though she's one of those people who insists on forwarding me a million
and three emails a week containing copies of images and jokes I have already
read and aren't really that funny. As she attends the same church as my
mother I'm disinclined to filter her emails on the basis that she might
figure it out and tell my mother who would certainly not be pleased. I hold
myself to blame as it was I who convinced her to let me give her a computer
because other than a trip to the store and to church(es) she was pretty much
a shut-in with few relatives nearby. Now they have their own private chat
server and webpage with a forum -- all done by her on that one old box
running 98se, F-Prot, AdAware, Outpost Personal Firewall (free) and a
low-end DSL connection on top of that. Other than the manual, doing the
original OP configuration, and the OS installation (since repeated once
since 2000 or so) she's done it all on her own. She's 93 or 94??? So,
there's a bit of a testimony on F-Prot though like all things security is a
process and not an application and all software must be regularly updated,
checked for errors, and watched carefully.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes