JM>
  > Is the use of the DOS utility "f-prot" effective to screen for viruses
  > under WARP 4?  If not, should I use something different (preferably
  > freeware)?
JM>
  Virus checking that reads files and scans them for viral signatures
  should be as effective whether it is a DOS program or an OS/2 program,
  as long as you remember that such programs may encounter sharing
  problems when trying to read the EXEs or DLLs of programs that are
  running at the time (such files cannot be opened for write access --
  OS/2 programs generally get file sharing correct, since they are
  required to by the nature of OS/2, but DOS programs are generally laxer
  about file sharing) and that DOS programs will not be able to access the
  disc at a low level or be able to see files that have long filenames.
  Also note that OS/2 _native_ viruses are rare to non-existent.  On an
  infected system, an OS/2 virus checker is more likely to be running in a
  virus-free address space than a DOS virus checker is.
  The last that I heard, F-PROT was available as a native OS/2 utility,
  and if you are an F-PROT DOS user I encourage you to move to it if you
  can.  Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus, McAfee SCAN, and IBM AntiVirus are some
  of the other options for native OS/2 anti-virus software.
  > JdeBP <
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