Re[3]: Anti-virus plugins
(apologies if this appears twice) Re the stuff on Norton and XP below: (related to Norton AV 2002 and the loss of the autodelete function for infected mail after moving from 2001) I've found that Norton 2001 works fine (so far!) with the Bat in XP if the instructions found from the google search below are followed. Norton were very cagy about it working, citing the Microsoft compatiblity update as untested. in fact, I suspect all the MS update is is a warning flash on installation about the symevent file in 2001 being incompatible, but installing the updated file during the main install seems to work ok. Uninstalling 2002 was a pain, though - the uninstall routine leaves loads of stuff in the registry which I manually cleared out, and a number of dll files. Even then, the new install picked up my registration details from the 2002 install. At least my 90 day oem 2001 copy now has the 365 days of updates of the retail 2002 that was there before! My mail downloads are now fully automatic but I've disabled all the scheduled tasks just in case there is still a problem with Symevent. John Rainer Friday, December 28, 2001, 8:22:47 PM, you wrote: JR Friday, December 28, 2001, 6:45:55 PM, you wrote: S John, your observations of NAV2002 seem to be exactly the same as my S observations. I think the autodelete function is not there, at least S I have not seen the option. Like you, the autorepair does not seem to S work. S I'd be interested to know whether or not you are successful in using S NAV2001 with WinXP. I did try it, but got the not compatible S warnings. Symantec has some information on using it, but was very S hard to find on their web site, and seemed very sketchy. I never S could make it work and from what others say, they couldn't either. JR Sam, JR I found the following info on Google - I don't know if it is reliable JR or not! Put HjWi7.17602$[EMAIL PROTECTED] complete with JR quotes into a Google news search. JR There is also a software compatibility update for XP where Norton JR Antivirus 2001 is mentioned - I've contacted Symantec about it and am JR awaiting a response (cue moaning wind and tumbleweed). See JR http://servicenews.symantec.com/cgi-bin/displayArticle.cgi?group=symantec.support.winnt.nortonantivirus2002.generalarticle=25317 JR - I did not post the original article but did follow it up. JR John -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re[3]: Anti-virus plugins
Re the stuff on Norton and XP below: (related to Norton AV 2002 and the loss of the autodelete function for infected mail after moving from 2001) I've found that Norton 2001 works fine (so far!) with the Bat in XP if the instructions found from the google search below are followed. Norton were very cagy about it working, citing the Microsoft compatiblity update as untested. in fact, I suspect all the MS update is is a warning flash on installation about the symevent file in 2001 being incompatible, but installing the updated file during the main install seems to work ok. Uninstalling 2002 was a pain, though - the uninstall routine leaves loads of stuff in the registry which I manually cleared out, and a number of dll files. Even then, the new install picked up my registration details from the 2002 install. At least my 90 day oem 2001 copy now has the 365 days of updates of the retail 2002 that was there before! My mail downloads are now fully automatic but I've disabled all the scheduled tasks just in case there is still a problem with Symevent. John Rainer Friday, December 28, 2001, 8:22:47 PM, you wrote: JR Friday, December 28, 2001, 6:45:55 PM, you wrote: S John, your observations of NAV2002 seem to be exactly the same as my S observations. I think the autodelete function is not there, at least S I have not seen the option. Like you, the autorepair does not seem to S work. S I'd be interested to know whether or not you are successful in using S NAV2001 with WinXP. I did try it, but got the not compatible S warnings. Symantec has some information on using it, but was very S hard to find on their web site, and seemed very sketchy. I never S could make it work and from what others say, they couldn't either. JR Sam, JR I found the following info on Google - I don't know if it is reliable JR or not! Put HjWi7.17602$[EMAIL PROTECTED] complete with JR quotes into a Google news search. JR There is also a software compatibility update for XP where Norton JR Antivirus 2001 is mentioned - I've contacted Symantec about it and am JR awaiting a response (cue moaning wind and tumbleweed). See JR http://servicenews.symantec.com/cgi-bin/displayArticle.cgi?group=symantec.support.winnt.nortonantivirus2002.generalarticle=25317 JR - I did not post the original article but did follow it up. JR John -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re[3]: Anti-virus plugins
Friday, December 28, 2001, 1:36:47 PM, you wrote: DN Norton Antivirus works very well with The Bat! Be sure to DN enable the manual mail configuration, and for each mail account DN (assuming that it's a POP account), use pop3.norton.antivirus DN instead of the POP mail address. Use that one in your username DN line: username/pop.mail The SMTP address will remain DN unaffected. The online help will have more detail, just make DN sure to look under manual mail configuration. DN I have my NAV setup to automatically delete infected DN attachments. All I see in the left hand frame is a file icon DN with some Norton Virus Detected message. I got another DN Badtrans sent to me yesterday, and Norton and The Bat! DN handled it wonderfully. Dave, Which version are you using? - I've gone to 2002 because I'm now using XP and the autodelete function seems not to be present in 2002 - worked fine in 2000 and 2001 though. The email scanner in 2002 works in a very different way to earlier versions and needs no email client configuration. The only automatic function seems to be autorepair, which pops up a dialog on every infected mail (infuriating) as it can't repair it, plus it picks up the tmp file created by the bat, presumably because the mail is intercepted in a different way from 2000/2001. To make things worse, what's left of any infected mail has most of its headers removed. I've heard that 2001 can be got to work in XP, so I might give it a try - that worked fine in Windows 2000. Advice from Symantec on their forums seems to be along the lines of disabling the email scanner, as it is only a supplementary function, and relying instead on the resident scanner. Seems to ignore the point of why some users want to use email scanning but there you go. John Rainer -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
