I also use AVG, the free version, on my (slow) notebook and find it works well. The T'bird plug in operates as a proxy server and, as someone said, scans emails as they come in an pulls of any infected files it detects. These are placed in a directory called the virus vault so that you can deal with them later if you wish. It can also be set to mark both incoming and outgoing emails as having been checked and passed as virus free. I do not know what happens if I try to open an infected file since, to the best of my knowledge, this has never happened. It automatically updates the virus definitions and warns you if it fails to do so and the definitions are out of date. There are some minor niggles with it. I have it set up to scan files automatically daily but the free version does not appear to give me any option as to when the scan takes place and so it starts at 0800 and runs until about 0930. When it is doing the scan it runs at a high priority and seveerely slows anything else I try to do, which is usually reading email, and there is nothing I can do either to change the time it runs or reduce its priority. All I can do is pause it or stop it but I then forget to resume scanning. I suspect that the paid-for version would do better in this regard and it may not be an issue on a faster machine. Outside of the scanning time, I can use Protel (99SE) quite happily on this computer. I have an old NAV on a W98 machine on my network and manually update the virus definitions regularly. It is capable of scanning files on network shares and I have done this in the past. However I struck a problem here with some Linux Samba shares where the scanning became recursive because of the way various file structures were mounted and linked on the Linux box, and it would never terminate. Something to be fixed later, but of very low priority. Since the W98 box is not used a great deal, when it does scan network files it does not interfere significantly with anything else that is going on and could be timed to operate overnight. As far as I can recall, when I was using the W98 box for protel, there was not any significant issue with NAV, but remember it is an old version but on a slow old computer.
Dennis Saputelli wrote: > to answer the original question i am not aware and have not experienced > any trouble between Norton anti-virus and Protel 99SE > > this is not to say that Norton does not suck however > (boy, that was a great sentence!) > > i think aj's comment are about right > > i have Norton AV and i find it works > quite well when it is disabled :) > > seriously, with 7 machines all popping up Norton messages begging for my > credit card to re-subscribe in the next few days i am not going to do it > > i have heard good things about AVG software > http://www.grisoft.com/ > > i have not tried it yet, but i will > > one warning/combo question > > when using Norton AV and Thunderbird mail program and a virus rolls in > an attachment, Norton correctly spots it (if not disabled) and the puts > a lock on the file > > well in TBIRD the INBOX is a single file so all the message therein are > lost short of some heroics > this is of course a major nuisance > > but the question is how do other programs handle this issue ? > i can see why it works the way it does > > my working solution is a wonderful program (highly recommended) called > MailWasher > it lists all of the messages on all of the servers for all your email > accounts, just the subject and a few lines > easy to use and cheap enough for what it offers > > then it automatically spots the virii and spam, you > hit 'process' and they are zapped from the servers before you ever > download them > > ds > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 > 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 > San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> One thing I've noticed about the curent anti-virus paradigm is that the >> software is constantly scanning. Here at my workplace, our MIS >> department has McAfee installed, and it scans each and every file >> accessed at any time, along with daily scans of each and every file on >> my system). In other words, the program is, for all intents and >> purposes, constantly in the foreground, grinding away on the harddrive >> and eating up memory and processor power. The nuymber of page faults >> generated daily by this software is also quite staggering, and peak >> memory usage is in the neighborhood of 75-80M. >> >> You could always do what some other professionals do, and disable >> auto-scanning by your antiviral software. Instead of relying on the >> anti-viral software to manage your computer (as is the default behavior >> for the average-minded, stupid consumer or paranoid MIS department, >> desperate to avoid any contamination of networked computers due to the >> fact that many of those same consumers also have computers at work), >> perform periodic scans manually yourself. For instance, when you >> download a customer file, scan it. Just don't scan the entire hard drive >> every time you get a single new file... >> >> My two cents. Probably be ignored as another crazy Jenkinsism or >> re-stated by someone else here to their credit, but that's okay. At >> least I tried. >> >> aj >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brooks,Bill >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:29 PM >>> To: 'Protel EDA Discussion List' >>> Subject: [PEDA] Norton Antivirus software... interfere with Protel? >>> >>> Does anyone have any data that would indicate that the slow >>> performance of Protel 99SE on a windows 2000 Professional based >>> system could be related to the Norton Antivirus program interaction >>> with it? >>> >>> Lately my system is really running slow... I have 99SE and DXP 2004 >>> on my system... >>> Any help much appreciated... >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Bill Brooks - KG6VVP >>> PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+, C.I.I. >>> Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510 Datron World >>> Communications, Inc. >>> _______________________________________ >>> San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers Council Communications >>> Officer, Web Manager http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/ >>> http://pcbwizards.com >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________ >>> You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum >>> >>> To Post messages: >>> mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> Unsubscribe and Other Options: >>> http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com >>> >>> Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>> >>> Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum >> >> To Post messages: >> mailto:[email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe and Other Options: >> http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com >> >> Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> >> > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > -- Bob Mitchell PO Box 68 Phone (+61 2) 9449 4736 (21 Hudson Close) Fax (+61 2) 9449 1976 Turramurra, 2074 Mobile 0411554117 NSW, Australia Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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