On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 07:10:16 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 19:44:01 +0200, Dain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What for you need TSR virus check ?
>> Why don't use simple scanner such as Dr.Web or NortonAV ?
> Sergei......I can only partially answer you.....you ask questions
> which make me dig into my preferences.....but, one reason
> I want tsr virus checker to monitor when something writes to
> any sensitive areas on my system.....I don't know Dr.Web, but
> NortonAV works well and I use it, but, expecially on this box,
> I want a SMALL tsr to sit as watchman.....My Dr, Panda stuff
> interfers with Arachne (and even my mouse driver, if I don't
> load it first), and I haven't had much time to test/config
> on it much, and still don't have it.....
> My CMOS Bios Virus check function is the only thing I
> have running now....and I am slightly nervous about running
> around the web, without as much protection as possible
> Maybe I'm just being paranoid....your questions made me
> question whether this is true or not....thanks for questions.
> gregy
Gregy,
Not to worry... you are almost 100% safe while browsing with Arachne.
(or any other DOS browser)
Unlike Windows browsers, DOS browsers will _not_ do anything unless
_you_ tell them to.
Any .EXE file that you download from the web will simply be saved to
disk.
(unless you change the MIME.CFG file in your main Arachne directory).
Mime.cfg tells Arachne what to do with each type of file that is D/Led.
If a certain type of file is not named in Mime.cfg, the only thing that
Arachne _can_ do is save it to disk.
--
Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
