-=>> Quoting David Kirschbaum to Graeme Minto on 16 Jan 97  12:28:00<=-
 DK>> On (10 Jan 97) Graeme Minto wrote to All...
 DK>> But I don't depend on TSR virus scanners to protect me from
 DK>> anything new I bring into the system.  Instead, I fire up
 DK>> FPROT manually and scan everything (to include executables
 DK>> in archives).  And I check compressed executables by type to
 DK>> insure they're not something weird FPROT can't handle.
 DG>  PMFBI,
 DG>  I'm using the latest OEM of W95 and have not yet found enough nerve to
 DG>  try FPROT under W95.  I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how you 
re
 DG>  using it.
I never gave it a thought.  When I upgraded to WIN95, I just kept using 
FPROT, just like I had been with WIN31.
 DG>  Do you use it as a TSR at all or do you simply run it under a DOS 
indow
 DG>  when you want to particularly check things out.
I run it in a DOS window, usually to check out a newly downloaded executable 
(or members of a downloaded .ZIP archive).
 DG>  How does it handle the long filenames?
It doesn't!  :-)  Well, that is, it uses the short names produced by DOS 7.0, 
just like every _other_ DOS compatible program does!  Which seems to work 
just fine.  We doan' need no feelthy long filenames just to open and scan a 
file :-)
 DG>  I'm really a chicken and fear that it might just affect some of the
 DG>  hidden files with long names and cripple my W95 so any suggestions that
 DG>  you might give me will be much appreciated.
It probably doesn't even _find_  the hidden files (never checked really).  I 
only used it a couple of times to check my entire system (like, after some 
WIN95 program installs itself and it's broke and locks up the installation).  
Never seemed to have a bit of  trouble with full drive scans.  It finds the 
long-name directories and everything just fine, again because it uses the 
"short name" provided by DOS 7.0 in the DOS window.
 DG>  I really found FPROT superior to McAfee and would like the opportunity
 DG>  to keep on using it.
I continue to use them both:  FPROT for a case-by-case manual scan of newly 
imported files, and McAfee's Scan for Win95 that is installed and usually 
active.
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
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