Re[2]: What's the use of an Anti virus plug-in?

2004-06-23 Thread Wayne King
Monday, June 21, 2004, 11:26:39 AM, Andre wrote: > On 21 Jun 2004 at 21:03:10 -0600 GMT [05:03 CEST] you wrote: WK>> Will AVG work without the plugin? I only use pop3 and am happy WK>> to have infected messages/attachments just deleted. > What's so terrible wrong with doing exactly that with a p

Re[2]: What's the use of an Anti virus plug-in?

2004-06-20 Thread Wayne King
T>> What use is an Anti Virus (AV) plug-in? T>> I think all decent AV tools sniff incoming/outgoing e-mail traffic T>> automatically. T>> So what benefit does a plug-in add? > It quarantines bad mails into a quarantine folder within TB, while a > AV program without plugin will quarantine it ot a f

Re[2]: What's the use of an Anti virus plug-in?

2004-06-13 Thread Tony
Hello Joseph, JN> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:51:57 GMT, Allie Martin wrote: >> You may also be using POP3 but with encryption. Again, the usual >> POP3 scanners will not detect viruses over an ecrypted feed. The >> plugin helps there. JN> Allie, wouldn't the AMON filter detect the virus when it hit

Re[2]: What's the use of an Anti virus plug-in?

2004-06-13 Thread Tony
Hello William, WM> Hello Simon WM> Thank you for your email dated Saturday, June 12, 2004, 9:26:48 PM, WM> in which you wrote: >> NOD32 can only deal with POP3 or MAPI through it's IMON / EMON >> scanners. WM> Since IMON is email client independent and works at the winsock level WM> doesn't it

Re[2]: What's the use of an Anti virus plug-in?

2004-06-12 Thread Tony
Hello Michael, MLW> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- MLW> Hash: SHA1 MLW> Hello Tony, MLW> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, at 21:46:36 [GMT+0200] (which was 12:46:36 In San MLW> Jose, CA, USA) you wrote: T>> I'm currently using NOD32; and I think there is a plugin for it. I meant to say *no* plugin