p1@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Slade) (02/09/91)
I received an emergency call yesterday from one of the members of
INtegrity. She had tried out a few of the FPROT programs, and found
them easy enough to use that she decided to experiment with the other
programs without reading the documentation....
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Subject: FPROT and F-XCHK
From Danielle Trottier:
I was glad I had downloaded the F-PROT programm until today...
but I have no fear, thanks to Robert Slade I am still glad I did
I was playing around and decided to trust that each program of
F-PROT would guide me as how to use it so that way I wouldn't
have to read trought the entire litterature that came with it...
So I used the F-XCHK command before using the F-XLOCK and
because of that, all .exe or .com (absolutely everything...
except for your basic DIR COPY TYPE commands) answered me back
with ACCESS DENIED...
I 've learned my lesson I will definitely always read the
litterature that comes with the software from now on.
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Just to add a little to Danielle's posting:
The documentation for FPROT does stated quite clearly what must
be done before F-XCHK is used. It also warns that F-XCHK is
something that you may not be able to use on your system.
Fortunately we were able to solve Danielle's problem quite
quickly, since she had not installed F-XCHK in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
file. F-XCHK prevent any "non-F-XLOCKed" programs from running,
but rebooting removed F-XCHK from memory.
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