Virus Protection: F-Prot

In the realm of personal computers, there are a host of items necessary to maintain the health of your machine. Among the most prominent item is virus protection software. The virus software that comes with most computers is outdated before the computer is even out of the box. So, it is extremely important that individuals using personal computers regularly check their machines with the most recent version of a proven anti-virus program (ie. reliable virus software programs are constantly updated ).

Viruses can completely scramble and damage existing files on your computers' hard drive, to the point that these files are lost forever. Can you imagine recreating months or years of data? A daunting and nearly impossible task.

From our experience, viruses are contracted via floppy disk. As a service provider we have not encountered a virus being contracted over the internet. All known internet transferred viruses have been through specific application file like a Word Document. Care should be taken with files that "a friend" has emailed. As long as you download material from a reputable website, you should not encounter internet viruses.

If you would like a copy of proven anti-virus software, you can download the latest shareware version of F-Prot. All you need do is:

1. create a directory on your computer called "fprot"

2. click here to start downloading fp-225.zip

3. select your new fprot directory as the download destination

4. use pkunzip to "un-zip" F-Prot

5. start F-Prot from a DOS prompt

   
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