                   F-PROT Year 2000 compliance statement

The F-PROT anti-virus program only processes dates in the following ways:

1)  When generating a report, it requests the current date from the
    operating system and displays it. If the operating system reports the
    wrong date after 1/1/2000, F-PROT will too.

2)  The databases included with F-PROT have a limited "lifespan" - The
    program calculates the difference between the current date and the
    release date, and if it is greater than one year, F-PROT will refuse to
    work, saying it is too old to be of use.  For this reason, no version of
    F-PROT released before Jan. 1. 1999 will operate after Jan. 1. 2000.
    Depending on the update scedule, we would expect the version in
    distribution on Jan. 1. 2000 to be one that will be released in
    September 1999 or later.  If the operating system reports the wrong
    date after 1/1/2000, F-PROT may refuse to work.

In other words, F-PROT is fully Year-2000 compliant, provided that:

    1) The computer itself is.

    2) The correct date is reported by the operating system.

    3) The user is using an up-to-date version of the program.
