Warning For Any Users of F-Prot Antivirus

Rex_Mundi

If any of you out there are using this antivirus. I would seriously recommend you uninstall it and get yourself a decent one.

I've just sorted out a PC that was brought to me because it was behaving oddly. After deleting over 300 bits of spyware with Adaware and Spybot. I did a scan with the antivirus on the computer (F-Prot). I was a bit dubious about whether it was any good having never come accross this before. It came back no infection, but my instincts led me to think this wasn't the case. I uninstalled it, downloaded Avast (free) and rescanned.

The first message from Avast told me that it needed to run at boot up because of infections. Avast found and deleted 8344 files infected with over 10 types of worms and trojans.

For a supposed antivirus to miss what was basically a full takeover of the system by multiple viruses makes me wonder how the jokers that wrote it had the cheek to put it in the public domain. If you have this program on your system. Do yourself a favour and uninstall it. It is completely useless!!!!!

Browntoa

I often get called on to fix friends Pc's and l would have spent ages looking elsewhere for problems if it had a working up to date version of F-Prot that scanned clean like you suggested....I shalll bear this in mind now !!

italiastar

After reading the above, I downloaded Avast - ground my PC to a halt and had to get it into shap. After running Avast it found ............................................ no infections on my PC. Looks like F-Prot did it's job properly!

Thanks for the advice anyway.

blinky

F-Prot isn't that common in standalone machines but it is more often seen in corporate environments. I wonder if it hadn't updated properly?

italiastar

APOLOGIES - I was mistaken - just checked and I was running F-SECURE not F-prot

sicker

I've been using f-secure for a long time now and like it a lot. Unfortunately they have rescently changed their help line no. from an 0870 to a premium 09 no. Most disappointing and when my subscription runs out I shall reluctently be looking elsewhere.

John