[OT] Which f-secure product is f-prot?

[Maurizio Matteo Munafo']

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On Friday 13 September 2002 18:11, Julian Field wrote:
> Can I add a comment here that hopefully won't get me into too much trouble?
>
> F-Prot is a good product.
> F-Secure is not.
>
> F-Secure will silently ignore any file whose pathname is longer than 256
> characters.
> They admit to that on their own web site.
> F-Secure will not scan any files whose name starts with a "." even when you
> use the "--dumb" option which is supposed to force scanning of all files.
>

News on the F-Secure front. On their web site they just released an
'Important maintenance update' for their scanners.
The hotfixed 4.15 Linux version now scans 'dot' files without problems.
As for the pathname longer than 256 chars, the scanner issues a 'path to
long' message.

Maurizio

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