Anti-Virus again... F-PROT anyone? Why I need one

[alcanz]

Hi Moltke,

Thanks for your comments.  This is a real puzzle.  I wonder what Jerry & I have installed.

Doing some more research now...

OK!! First, the Cyren F-Prot website is a mess. The Search function appears to be non-functional. The links from the Home page - well, convoluted.  If you click the left-side link on your page it goes to a Paid Version page.

[FWIW, finding the Linux version on the Sophos website isn't any better.  You get what you pay for, I guess.  Google is better.]

I can see how you reached your conclusions, and now, I'm confused as well.

It appears there is, or definitely was, a free Linux version, if you follow this link:

http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user...linux.html

The page looks like this:



It clearly says 'free for home users' - but is it???

The DL link: http://files.f-prot.com/files/unix-trial...-ws.tar.gz

includes "unix-trial" so maybe it's only a trial version.  What's more, it's 32-bit, which is what I installed.  I'm guessing Jerry installed the 64-bit version (other thread: https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/insta.../#msg50264), but we'd have to ask him. As he's already said he's not too interested (OWTTE) because the application is so old and not being maintained, I'll leave it to him if he wants to comment.

Not sure where that leaves us, but I may keep digging, at least to see if I can find out what virus scanning scores it gets.  My bet is it's now a trial, and the website hasn't been updated, but we'll have to wait and see.

Hopefully, it's not a trial and I now "comply"...

Cheers!