On Friday, October 29, 2004, 20:38, Tony Boom wrote: > I installed the NOD32 pluggin that someone mentioned on here. I > already use NOD32, it already checks both incoming and out going > mail so what advantage is there to have the pluggin?
From the TB! help file: ,----- | Currently, e-mail viruses are one of the biggest threats to the | Internet community. Even though most Anti-Virus (AV) software vendors | allow the checking of incoming messages received by POP3 connections, | there are several uncovered issues: | | · only insecure (non-TLS) connections can be monitored | · AV software has to check any message passing through its filters | (while The Bat! may check files only they are saved or executed), thus | the process of mail retrieval gets significantly slower, overall | system performance may go down | · PGP/MIME and S/MIME encrypted messages cannot be checked | · IMAP connections are not monitored in most cases | · If a virus was received before the AV software has updated its | database, there is no way to remove the virus from the message base | unless the AV software is familiar with the message base format (if a | message base in encrypted, it is impossible to remove viruses from | there anyway) | · There can be a problem in AV software when several accounts are | checked simultaneously (in other words, most AV packages only support | one connection at a time). | · Most AV software requires quite uncomfortable changes to the | configuration of e-mail clients | | To cover the above issues, The Bat! has introduced an Anti-Virus | Plug-in interface. `----- -- Regards, Marcus Ohlström Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 PGP Public Key at http://www.canit.se/~marcus/pgp.asc ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.3 Rush | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
