Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Partous
Hello Thomas, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 3:08:40 AM, you wrote: TF Hello Melissa, TF On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:57:14 -0800 GMT (06/03/03, 02:57 +0700 GMT), TF Melissa Reese wrote: Actually, no anti-virus will catch any virii, because virii isn't even a word. :-) Viruses is the proper plural form

Re: Changing name of sender

2003-03-06 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo Jeanny, On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:35:15 -0600GMT (6-3-03, 4:35 +0100, where I live), you wrote: JH Is there any way to do a filter that would make that happen and JH then still sort it into the Mom file? No, you cannot alter incoming messages in TB. One option in this case would be to use a

Re[3]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Partous
Hello rick, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 4:25:56 AM, you wrote: TF I am using PC-Cillin, and while I am quite happy with it, it does not TF reliably catch viruses that are in attached files when downloading TF mails. r PC-Cillin is not very good. Independent testing done by virus r bulletin

Re: Changing name of sender

2003-03-06 Thread Allie Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roelof Otten [RO] wrote: RO Another way would be to export the message and have some script edit RO the message and import it back into your Mom folder. This can be achieved with a single filter, BTW. Just select the export action and then

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Partous
Hello Thomas, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 3:20:07 AM, you wrote: TF I am using PC-Cillin, and while I am quite happy with it, it does not TF reliably catch viruses that are in attached files when downloading TF mails. So, I manually save every attachment that might contain a virus TF (including,

Re: Changing name of sender

2003-03-06 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Allie, @6-Mar-2003, 05:03 -0500 (10:03 UK time) Allie Martin [A] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A Aren't there simple search and replace tools out there that A can be triggered using CLI commands? I should look for one. The classic is

Re: Changing name of sender

2003-03-06 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo Allie, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 05:03:52 -0500GMT (6-3-03, 11:03 +0100, where I live), you wrote: RO Another way would be to export the message and have some script RO edit the message and import it back into your Mom folder. AM This can be achieved with a single filter, BTW. That was how I

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Geoff Lane
On 06 March 2003, 09:00, Mark Partous wrote: According to Webster's the plural is viruses. The Oxford Illustrated does not mention a plural form. ~~~ Oxford Reference Shelf, Science volume (circa 1999) repeatedly uses viruses as the plural. So, lexicographers on both sides of the pond appear

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 9:20 PM, you wrote: TF One question to those people who said ion an earlier thread they don't TF use virus scanners but rely on common sense: how do you tell whether TF a .doc file has a macro virus if you don't use a virus scanner? Do you TF open the file in hex

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread William Moore
Hello Mark Thank you for your email dated Thursday, March 6, 2003, 9:50:36 AM, in which you wrote: MP Thursday, March 6, 2003, 4:25:56 AM, you wrote: MP the fuzz Que? Money? You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. -- Regards William www.residues.info Flying with The Bat!

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Kim
Hi William, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 6:59:01 AM, you wrote: MP the fuzz Que? Money? You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. I think Mark means fuss, rather than fuzz. Of course, I could be wrong. :) -- Best regards, Kim Current version is 1.62 |

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Mark, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 3:00:55 AM, you wrote: Actually, no anti-virus will catch any virii, because virii isn't even a word. :-) Viruses is the proper plural form of virus. MP Actually, virus is a Latin word and the one and only plural(*)(in Latin) is: MP tadaa MP VIRI

cannot delete multiple attached files

2003-03-06 Thread Hung-Jen Wang
Hi, I am using The Bat! 1.62i in Chinese Windows 2000. I find that I cannot select and then delete multiple files attached to a message. To be more clear, I can select multiple files attached to a message from the main program window, but when I right click the mouse, the Delete option in the

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mark Partous
Hello Kim, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 1:08:15 PM, you wrote: K Hi William, K Thursday, March 6, 2003, 6:59:01 AM, you wrote: MP the fuzz Que? Money? You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. K I think Mark means fuss, rather than fuzz. Of course, I could be K wrong. :) No, you're not wrong, fuss

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Spike
Hello Thomas, On or about Wednesday, March 05, 2003 at 09:20:07GMT +0700 (which was 9:20 PM in the tropics where I live) Thomas Fernandez posted: TF One question to those people who said ion an earlier thread they TF don't use virus scanners but rely on common sense: how do you TF tell whether a

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Spike, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:40:11 -0500 GMT (06/03/03, 22:40 +0700 GMT), Spike wrote: I simply run MS Office [SPIT!] apps in {DEFAULT} macros disabled! Very simple! Yes, but it depends on what you do outside of cyberworld. I cannot afford disabling them, as I receive valid MS Office

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Clive Taylor
Hello Spike S Besides, only ONE person has ever sent me a *.DOC or *.XLS S document. He uses NA Well, this is hardly realistic in the real world! I get around 20 MS Office documents daily and certainly wouldn't like to rely on such a cavalier approach to my security. -- Clive Taylor Using The

Re: cannot delete multiple attached files

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Hung-Jen, welcome to the list! On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:24:29 +0800 GMT (06/03/03, 20:24 +0700 GMT), Hung-Jen Wang wrote: I am using The Bat! 1.62i in Chinese Windows 2000. I find that I cannot select and then delete multiple files attached to a message. To be more clear, I can select

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Robert, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:15:21 -0600 GMT (06/03/03, 19:15 +0700 GMT), Robert C Wittig wrote: MP People who talk about virii try to make a plural of a plural. :-) Actually, the 'accepted' plural for 'computer virus' is 'computer viruses'... but I prefer to use virii... a) because

Re:

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Tom, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:32:32 +1100 GMT (06/03/03, 10:32 +0700 GMT), Tom Sadler wrote: If NOD32 (which gets the most praise on this list) offers a trial period, I am willing to look into it. Does it? Check out http://www.nod32.com.au/nod32/download/trial.htm This is the

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello rick, On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:25:56 -0500 GMT (06/03/03, 10:25 +0700 GMT), rick wrote: PC-Cillin is not very good. Independent testing done by virus bulletin clearly shows this. It has 4 passes and 7 failures. http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?trend.xml IIRC

Re: cannot delete multiple attached files

2003-03-06 Thread Andre Wichartz
Hello Thomas, On Thursday, March 6, 2003, 23:13:14 +0700 GMT (which was 17:13 local time), Thomas Fernandez wrote: TF I am using Chinese Windows 98 (Taiwan version). When I right-click TF on an attachment (of a message with multiple attachments, in the TF preview pane), the Delete option in the

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Andre Wichartz
Hello Spike, On Thursday, March 6, 2003, 10:40:11 -0500 GMT (which was 16:40 local time), Spike wrote: S I simply run MS Office [SPIT!] apps in {DEFAULT} macros disabled! S Very simple! I use OpenOffice. Is that vurnable to these viruses, too? S I volunteer in a computer recycling effort here,

Re: Changing name of sender

2003-03-06 Thread Andre Wichartz
Hello Roelof, On Thursday, March 6, 2003, 10:34:04 +0100 GMT (which was 10:34 local time), Roelof Otten wrote: RO Hallo Jeanny, RO On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:35:15 -0600GMT (6-3-03, 4:35 +0100, where I RO live), you wrote: JH Is there any way to do a filter that would make that happen and JH then

Re: cannot delete multiple attached files

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Andre, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:55:50 +0100 GMT (06/03/03, 23:55 +0700 GMT), Andre Wichartz wrote: I experience this behaviour only when selecting only one file. When I have several files selected 'delete' is greyed out as Hung-Jen said. Correct. TB does not have an option to delete

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Melissa, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:32:05 -0800 GMT (07/03/03, 00:32 +0700 GMT), Melissa Reese wrote: just lately I have gotten a virus in email, and AVG found a virus in my system restore folder!! Are you aware of this issue with System Restore and infected files?

WAS:filter whoes

2003-03-06 Thread Luc
Good evening list, Thanks to Miguel Roelof, the problem is solved. Removed the single quotes and disabled the regex option. Works like a charm now. -- Best regards, Luc Powered by The Bat! version 1.63 Beta/7 with Windows 2000 (build

missing mails

2003-03-06 Thread Tiba
Hi everybody, from one second to the other all my mail folders are empty exept the sent and inbox... i still get messages, but the old ones are not there anymore.. how can i recover them, since the two message files in each folder are still on my hard drive? thanks -tiba ps. my last backup ist 3

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread rick
Hello Thomas, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 11:51:19 AM, you wrote: TF Hello rick, TF On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:25:56 -0500 GMT (06/03/03, 10:25 +0700 GMT), TF rick wrote: PC-Cillin is not very good. Independent testing done by virus bulletin clearly shows this. It has 4 passes and 7 failures.

Re: WAS:filter whoes

2003-03-06 Thread Miguel A. Urech
Hello Luc, Thanks to Miguel Roelof, the problem is solved. Removed the single quotes and disabled the regex option. Works like a charm now. No credit or beer for me this time. I just asked you to post one of your filters. It was Roleof and a couple of others who found your problem. -- Best

Re: missing mails

2003-03-06 Thread Marcus Ohlström
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, 10:45, Tiba wrote: from one second to the other all my mail folders are empty exept the sent and inbox... i still get messages, but the old ones are not there anymore.. how can i recover them, since the two message files in each folder are still on my hard

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Tom Sadler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gi'day Thomas, It is established that on Friday, 7 March 2003, at 23:39:31[GMT +0700](which was 3:39 AM where I live) you wrote: BTW: Your template seems to destry to Subject header. Fixed. (I hope) - -- Cheers, Tom Sydney, Australia TB! v1.63

Re: WAS:filter whoes

2003-03-06 Thread Luc
Good evening Miguel, It was foretold that on 6-3-2003 @ 21:47:28 GMT+0100 (which was 21:47:28 where I live) Miguel A. Urech would mumble: snipped a bit MAU No credit or beer for me this time. I just asked you to post one of MAU your filters. It was Roleof and a couple of others who found

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, 12:39 PM, you wrote: Are you aware of this issue with System Restore and infected files? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q263455 TF And this is user-friendly? so who said Micro$oft was EVER user friendly!! -- Paul Using The Bat! v1.63

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thursday, March 6, 2003, 12:32 PM, you wrote: MR Are you aware of this issue with System Restore and infected files? no I wasn't, BUT I AM NOW!!! thanks! avg found a virus 2 days in a row in the system restore folder. If it happens tonight, I will probably turn off restore, run AVG the next

Re: Changing name of sender

2003-03-06 Thread Daniel Grunberg
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:35:15 [GMT -0600] (10:35 PM EST here) Jeanny House wrote: My mom doesn't use her name when she emails, just her email address. However, I'd like to have her name show up in the From instead of her email address. Is there any way to do a filter that would make that happen

Re: missing mails

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Marcus, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:40:14 +0100 GMT (07/03/03, 03:40 +0700 GMT), Marcus Ohlström wrote: If not, shut down TB! and restore your backuped files. Start it again and use the Folder | Browse deleted messages option. If that does not help either, I'm afraid the messages are gone.

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello rick, On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:03:58 -0500 GMT (07/03/03, 02:03 +0700 GMT), rick wrote: TF IIRC Virus-Bulletin uses some really weird benchmarks, not not always TF the latest version of the software they are testing. I don't understand what you mean with this statement. If I am correct

Re: cannot delete multiple attached files

2003-03-06 Thread Hung-Jen Wang
Friday, March 7, 2003, 1:08:28 AM, Thomas Fernandez wrote: I experience this behaviour only when selecting only one file. When I have several files selected 'delete' is greyed out as Hung-Jen said. Correct. TB does not have an option to delete several files. Is this right? In TB's What's

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Alexander
Hi Spike, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 3:40:11 PM, you wrote: S I volunteer in a computer recycling effort here, so I never have less S than 30-40 systems just lying around. I'll readily admit this is a S luxury some cannot afford. Almost everyone I know has at least one S 'old system' lying

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Alexander
Hi Thomas, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 4:51:19 PM, you wrote: TF BTW on the German North Sea (German Bay), the beach will extend to TF the horizon - in all directions - at low tide. This is because the TF Atlantic Ocean is really flat in the area we call the Wattenmeer. TF Jokes about the

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Alexander
Hi Thomas, Thursday, March 6, 2003, 5:39:40 PM, you wrote: TF Hello Melissa, TF On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:32:05 -0800 GMT (07/03/03, 00:32 +0700 GMT), TF Melissa Reese wrote: just lately I have gotten a virus in email, and AVG found a virus in my system restore folder!! Are you aware of this

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Alexander
Hi Melissa, Friday, March 7, 2003, 2:42:28 AM, you wrote: MR Without getting into a discussion of the stability of NT/2000/XP, most MR people who recommend against WinME will claim that Win98/SE is more MR stable than WinME. Obviously, this has not been my experience...not MR even close. Any

Re: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread David Calvarese
On Thursday, March 06, 2003 at 18:42:28GMT -0800 (which was 9:42 PM where I live) Melissa Reese wrote and made these points on the subject of Antivirus: MR On Thursday, March 06, 2003, at 6:21:42 PM PST, Mike Alexander wrote: Hey, it's for Windows ME and that dog has never been friendly - or

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Task Control
Hi tbudl at thebat.dutaint.com: In the past Melissa was post: MR Without getting into a discussion of the stability of NT/2000/XP, most MR people who recommend against WinME will claim that Win98/SE is more MR stable than WinME. Obviously, this has not been my experience...not MR even close.

The Bat under lindows?

2003-03-06 Thread Task Control
Hellow tbudl arroba thebat.dutaint.com I'm thinking try lindows? The bat works with this? -- Best Regards, Task Control mail: TaskControl at SoftHome dot net Using: - Windows 98 4.10.1998 - AVG 6.0 Free Edition - The Bat! 1.63 Beta/7 - Trillian PRO 1.0 B

DEAD HORSE (was Antivirus)

2003-03-06 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David, @6-Mar-2003, 22:43 -0500 (03:43 UK time) David Calvarese [DC] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: DC Maybe Sony optimized the hardware for 98SE. moderator Note: This moderator's interjection is a note to all readers and not just to the person

Re[2]: Antivirus

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Alexander
Hi Melissa, Friday, March 7, 2003, 3:35:03 AM, you wrote: MR Is this thread off-topic yet? ;-) Yes, which is why I can't possibly tell you about the stats showing ME to have major problems ;-) Discussing this means going elsewhere (TBOT) which I haven't joined yet. -- Best regards, Mike

New to TB

2003-03-06 Thread Test Account SMTP
Hi I'm just busy trying The Bat out a bit. I've been using Forte Agent for several years, but I'm now starting to need multiple mailbox support, etc. Anyone have experience moving from Agent to TB? Anything I should watch out for? Thanks Graeme