F-Prot and F-Secure the same thing?

Eep² wrote:

> F-Secure--anyway, seems F-Secure Corp creates it...whatever. Though I think Frisk (F-Prot developer) and F-Secure were, at one time, the same company. I can't find the screenshot now but there is a Win95 F-Secure "about" dialog with Frisk as the developer, not F-Secure.

F-Secure's product used the F-Prot engine and the KAV engine
simultaneously until recently. The F-Prot engine was dropped but I have
no idea why.
Additonnally, F-Secure also offered F-Prot for DOS and even made its own
DEF files.

> What's so special about that engine? How many virii/trojans/backdoors/whatever does it detect compared to other engines?

KAV doesn't detect any "virii" but it's quite good at detecting viruses.
 >> Stay informed about: F-Prot and F-Secure the same thing? 

I was going to comment but my dogii are barking.


"Frederic Bonroy" <bidonavirus.TakeThisOut@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:2k7qpeF18lgq3U2@uni-berlin.de...
> Eep² wrote:
>
> > F-Secure--anyway, seems F-Secure Corp creates it...whatever. Though I
think Frisk (F-Prot developer) and F-Secure were, at one time, the same
company. I can't find the screenshot now but there is a Win95 F-Secure
"about" dialog with Frisk as the developer, not F-Secure.
>
> F-Secure's product used the F-Prot engine and the KAV engine
> simultaneously until recently. The F-Prot engine was dropped but I have
> no idea why.
> Additonnally, F-Secure also offered F-Prot for DOS and even made its own
> DEF files.
>
> > What's so special about that engine? How many
virii/trojans/backdoors/whatever does it detect compared to other engines?
>
> KAV doesn't detect any "virii" but it's quite good at detecting viruses.

 >> Stay informed about: F-Prot and F-Secure the same thing? 

null.DeleteThis@zilch.com wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:29:43 GMT, Eep² <no.DeleteThis@spam.com> wrote:
>
> >null@zilch.com wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:07:00 GMT, Eep² <no.DeleteThis@spam.com> wrote:
> >>
> >Though I think Frisk (F-Prot developer) and F-Secure were, at one time,
> >the same company.
>
> No. Up until recently, F-Secure used the F-Prot scan engine (as well
> as KAV).

Why?

> >> >Which is the better product?
> >>
> >> F-Secure since it uses the KAV scan engine.
> >
> >What's so special about that engine?
>
> It's just very good and reliable in many respects.
>
> >How many virii/trojans/backdoors/whatever does
> >it detect compared to other engines?
>
> It's one of the best in every category.

How so?

Specifics, man!
 >> Stay informed about: F-Prot and F-Secure the same thing? 

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:52:51 +0200, Frederic Bonroy
<bidonavirus DeleteThis @yahoo.fr> wrote:

>F-Secure's product used the F-Prot engine and the KAV engine
>simultaneously until recently. The F-Prot engine was dropped but I have
>no idea why.

>Additonnally, F-Secure also offered F-Prot for DOS and even made its own
>DEF files.
>

iirc in the late nineties if you were commercial (european) you were
obliged to buy f-secure not f-prot.

Also, f-secure used the f-prot engine as well as avp (now kav) engine
and now have their own scanner instead of f-prot.

Setaro will explain all, hopefully.


Jim.
 >> Stay informed about: F-Prot and F-Secure the same thing?