FRISK Software International

FRISK Software International (FSI), is an Icelandic software company that develops F-Prot antivirus and F-Prot AVES antivirus and antispam servicecite web | url=http://www.f-prot.com/company/ | title = F-Prot Antivirus - FRISK Software - Information and... | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] . Its name is derived from the initial letters of the personal name and patronymic of Friðrik Skúlason, its founder. The company was founded in 1993cite web | url=http://www.f-prot.com/company/ | title = F-Prot Antivirus - FRISK Software - Information and... | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] .

F-Prot Antivirus is sold in both home and corporate packages, of which there are editions for Windows, Linux, and BSD. There was also a DOS version for home users, and corporate versions exist for Microsoft Exchange, Solaris, and certain IBM eServers.cite web | url = http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/ | title = F-Prot Antivirus Products - Detailed product information on F-Prot Antvirus for Windows, Linux, BSD... | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] cite web | url = http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/| title = F-Prot Antivirus Products - Detailed product information on F-Prot Antvirus for Windows, Linux, BSD... | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] F-Prot has been produced since 1989cite web | url = http://www.frisk.is/fyrirtaeki.html | title = Friðrik Skúlason ehf. | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] . The distribution of the DOS version was stopped in 2007.

F-Prot AVES is for corporate userscite web | url = http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/aves/ | title = F-Prot Antivirus Products - Detailed product information on F-Prot Antivirus for Windows, Linux, BSD... | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] .

The company has also produced a program called Espólín, a genealogy programcite web | url = http://www.frisk.is/espolin.html | title = Friðrik Skúlason ehf. | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = March 14 | accessyear = 2006] , and Púki, a spellchecker with additional featurescite web | url = http://vefur.puki.is/ | title = Púki 2007. | format = .htm | publisher = FRISK | accessdate = April 25 | accessyear = 2008] .

FRISK Software International should not be confused with F-Secure, another data security company, although they are historically related. (At one time, F-Secure used FRISK's F-Prot anti-virus search engine for their anti-virus product.)

Trivia

* The genealogy program Espólín is named after Jón Espólín, a 18th century magistrate of Snæfellsnes.
* The name of the spellchecker "Púki" stands for "demon" in a similar sense as the .

External links

* [http://frisk.is/ FRISK's Islandic website]
* [http://f-prot.com/ FRISK's official website]
* [http://forum.f-prot.com/ FRISK's official forum]
* [http://complex.is/ FRISK's complex website]
* [http://frisk-software.com/ FRISK Software website]
* [http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fpdos.html Download F-PROT Antivirus for DOS - Personal Use]
* [http://www2.zdo.com/archives/4-F-Prot-Anti-Virus-Wrapper-for-Procmail.html F-Prot Anti-Virus wrapper for UNIX Procmail] by Ali Onur Cinar

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