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From: KURT WISMER 
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 04 14:42:00 +0100
Subject: Re: AVP
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-=> DAN EGLI wrote to ANDY KARIMOV <=-

 ak>     Kaspersky Lab has stopped release of the DOS-vesion antivirus.
 ak>     But I have last AVPDOS32 version and can place it on HTTP

 DE> Question is: will the current Datafiles work with it or is it getting
 DE> more and more dated by the day?

there's a good possibility that the answer is no... scanning engines get
updated over time and with those updates come virus definitions that
require the updated engine... if you use an engine that's too old it may
not be able to detect all the viruses you have listed in the
datafiles...

 DE> Frankly, what I'd REALLY appreciate is if someone could find an old
 DE> copy of Mcafee VirusScan for DOS. Currently the only virus scanning a
 DE> file gets on this bbs is when it is a .zip file because the Norton
 DE> AntiVirus can read inside of .ZIP files to scan their contents. But I'd
 DE> really like to be able to put a scanner door like THD_PRO up again.
 DE> However with no SCAN.EXE THDPRO is rather worthless :<

well, didn't thdpro work with f-prot aswell? f-prot for does is still
being supported and updated...