FWIW,
My Fprot command line:
f:\fprot\f-prot /NOBO /NOME /AR /DU /P /C /AU /DEL /AP
/REPORT=f:\imail\spool\vscan.log
The unabreviated switches are:
/NOBOOT
/NOMEM
/ARCHIVE
/DUMB
/PACKED
/COLLECT
/AUTO
/DELETE
/APPEND
/REPORT
Also, attached is a batch file I schedule to update f-prot nightly. It's a
"brute force" update, but has worked reliably.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry L Fritts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Declude Install
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pearson
>
> >I noticed that f-prot says they only protect against 40K viruses. This
> seems low
> >compared to other companies quoting 58K at this time. Any thoughts? They
> also say they >only update the files every two months? Anyone see a
problem
> with this? How easy is it >to update f-prot's def files? Can it be
> automated?
>
> Those are very good questions John.
> I guess our answers have to do with our basic business philosophy more
than
> anything else. We aren't really trying to catch 100% of all possible
> viruses but we'd like to protect our clients and ourselves to a reasonably
> high degree for a relatively low total cost. We felt that f-prot and
> declude helped us achieve that goal. I use CAI's InnoculateIt on my
> workstation and have been very pleased with it. We urge all of our client
> users to take adequate precautions themselves. All of the virus solutions
> currently in use can fail on a new virus so a virus scanner of any type
does
> not guarantee freedom from infection.
>
> I have not decided whether I'll update the def files programmatically or
> not. Usually on something that is done infrequently I prefer to do it
> myself manually. Then after some experience I determine whether to
automate
> or not. The update of the def files could not be much easier as you just
> replace the old ones with new ones.
>
> >Can you post recommended switches for f-prot used in the virus.cfg file?
>
> I ended up with this:
> F-Prot.exe /ALL /TYPE /SILENT /NOMEM
> I actually think f-prot.exe /NOMEM is really all you need though when
> scanning a single file in command mode but the others didn't seem to hurt
> anything and I decided to leave them. (/ALL is not a listed option but it
> does not produce an error so I left it.)
>
>
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updfprot.bat
