Hallo Christian,
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:33:00 -0500 GMT (10.04.2000, 20:33 +0800 GMT),
Christian Dysthe wrote:
TF>> I use Trend PC-Cillin. It has caught viruses (or viri?) sent to me by
TF>> mail, ie to The Bat!. Maybe you want to change your AV scanner?
CD> Well, I guess all virus scanners (who are set to scan all files) will
CD> scan The Bat! message files since they after all are....yes! files! :)
Correct. A virus some code, and virus scanners detect this particular
code (or about 34,000 different ones nowadays). They can do it by
scanning the HD or when the codes comes in via modem or LAN.
CD> What I am looking for though is having the scanner actually scan the
CD> mail on it's way in (or out for that matter) and intervene if they are
CD> infected (some scanners also tag the mails as well with some text
CD> telling they are clean).
That's what PC-Cillin does for me. I have "Realtime Scan" enabled.
This will check everything that comes in via modem or LAN (or copied
from other drives, I think). I have had emails coming in with infected
attachments (anything but text/plain is an attachment IMHO), and it
caught it. Sure, this Realtime Scan option slows downloading down, but
I usually web-surf at the same time, and you never know what people
put on their sites. I only disable it if I download a large file from
a known site, and will not do anything else while downloading.
Had a virus before. Been there. Don't need it again. ;-)
www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/
Comes with a 30-day trial as well.
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Cheers,
Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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