KW>TW> It would be nice if it had a "free to home user" license as it is
KW>TW> rather tight in tight in that department.
KW>
KW> f-prot is the only one that does... the rest are either shareware
KW> (which expect you to register after a certian amount of time) or
KW> evaluationware which stop working after a certain amount of time and
KW> don't offer the functionality of the full commercial version...
   For a long time I believed the same thing.  However, I recently
   obtained a newer version of AVScan from the author's net site where
   it was posted as AVSCAN.ZIP.  I renamed it to include the version
   number in emulation of earlier versions I've gotten on BBSs:
   AVSCN374.ZIP -- the three files within are all datestamped 09/19/97.
   Unlike the previous AVScan archives I've seen, this one was AV
   stamped and had a comment, viz:
      AVScan 3.74 (Freeware Scanner from Germany)
   I had never seen anything explicitly indicating this program was
   FreeWare.  I grant you that it is not nearly so well regarded as
   F-Prot (which is my mainstay) and the others you mentioned.
   The archive does not contain a FILE_ID.DIZ.  My description is:
      AVScan v3.74: FreeWare Antivirus scanner from
      Germany. Commercial ver available;H+BEDV GmbH
      AVSCAN /? for list of command line parameters
      ftp://ftp.antivir.de/antivir/english:09/19/97
   I've uploaded this 517 Kbyte file to ExecNet and Channel1.
   The very minimal documentation supplied states:
      AVScan is based on the algorithm behind AntiVir IV....
      This algorithm is the engine within AVScan and used within AntiVir
      IV.  AntiVir IV is a German product and available in German only.
      Please don't ask about an English version....
   Thus, while there is a commercial version, its utility for English
   speakers is obviously less than terrific.
BobW
---
 * SLMR 2.1a #1414 * Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
--- JMailQWK 2.80/BETA
---------------