dos software works under win98se but NOT under winxp !

[uhuru]

dos software works under win98se but NOT under winxp !
I got this answer from F-prot software producers:
>Hello and thank you for your mail.
>
>There is a problem with running a DOS anti-virus scanner on Windows NT
>4.0/2000/XP systems. It is not guaranteed that all files will be scanned.
>The reason for this has mainly to do with long filenames and non-ASCII
>characters in file names. DOS only "understands" 8 character long filenames.

So there is no way? Should I install a previous relase of DOS? How?
I used F-prot DOS under win98se without any problem, why I cannot use
it with win xp ???

[Mark Henri]

> I used F-prot DOS under win98se without any problem, why I cannot use
> it with win xp ???

The XP operating system is not just a souped up version of Windows
95/98/ME. It is an entirely different OS.

F-Prot is just anti-virus software and they appear to have a version that
runs with XP. There is no justification for downgrading your OS to use
this product since there are many good anti-virus applications on the
market that work fine with XP.

My advice... let go of the past. DOS is a dead OS as will be Windows 98
and ME very shortly.

[Brian Tillman]

>So there is no way? Should I install a previous relase of DOS? How?
>I used F-prot DOS under win98se without any problem, why I cannot use
>it with win xp ???

You probably won't be able to install DOS on your XP system because you
probably have NTFS as the file system and DOS can't read NTFS disks.

F-Prot for DOS runs on Windows 98 because Windows 98 runs on DOS. There is
a real DOS on your PC. For the most part, F-Prot for DOS will run in a
command window on XP but may not be able to scan all the files on your
disks. You should either upgrade to Frisk's F-prot for Windows (not all
that expensive), purchase another anti-virus program that does support XP,
or get a freeware A/V like AVG from Grisoft.
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