Chastened Apology and Revision for plugging F-Prot AV

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:18:34 -0500, Janus <janusNOSPAM DeleteThis @PLEASEmagma.ca>
wrote:

>In article <np7c311bgoshvmdorkrcn5tsm40t4nclla DeleteThis @4ax.com>, j DeleteThis @yahoo.co.uk
>says...
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>> Anyway it is not necessarilly F-Prot that is no good it could just be
>> probs with my pooters which are all in dire need of a clean install,
>> but I wonder if anybody else has had similar problems with F-Prot?
>
>Never seen the like. You don't say what OS you are running, but I've
>had F-Prot running on W2K workstations for well over a year. Never had
>a false positive, always been prompted, always been able to delete.
>
>My 2 yen
>
>tigerspirit

XP Pro SP2 on the home network & work domain, New XP Pro 2005 SP2 on
the Laptop..

Only had it on my home network never on the work domain thats still on
NAV until I get the NOD 32 licenses sorted.

Dunno about F-Prot, seems fine on the laptop but the "prompt for
action" feature on the home network just did not work, it deleted all
sorts of stuff without asking. I am not exactly a newbie and I went
through the settings many times, re-installed, all sorts to no avail.

I even deliberatly installed an image that I knew had a virus in
Firefox Cache (NOD 32 removed it fine) and tried F-Prot on it. No
disinfect - no options just "run the DOS scanner" and no access at all
to the file, well it did stop the infection but left me to dig it out
myself. Not ideal for work by any means.

I do think its my XP Pro, it has had various minor problems since SP2
arrived, You have largely confirmed my suspision that it is my XP not
F-Prot but having said that NOD 32 has no problems at all.

As for Newsbin Pro being flagged Spyware and getting deleted that is
bizzare, I re-installed to make sure it was F-Prot not finger trouble
and sure enough F-Prot scanned again and binned it again.

I discussed all this with F-Prot and they have no idea why I am having
trouble with the "prompt for action" option, but they did acknowlege
certain legit files & apps were falslely deleted as spyware and they
were working on it. Would not give specifics though.

By comparison the LT has a brand new clean HDD + Clean SP2 install, it
works fine so far but as there is only XP, Office 2000, Firefox &
Thunderbird on it at present it should be OK.

Anyway TBO I have better things to do at the mo than fiiddle with it
for days on end, I will do a re-install of XP soon and try it again
but I can't risk it on the work domain because its running a lot of
the same software as this network.

Thanks for the input Janus
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