On 20-12-2000 at 16:49:47GMT +0100 (which was 15:49 where I live)
Daniel Morton wrote regarding the subject of "New to the BAT, virus question"
Daniel> I was using Outlook and got a virus so my life was ruined
Daniel> for a week. I then tried Netscape and thought I would have to buy
Daniel> more ram to send emails to my mother. I looked Eudora and people
Daniel> were complaining, so every seems happy with The bat which I am now
Daniel> using. What I want to know is about its virus protection system and
Daniel> spam mail. OE is targetted for viruses (using its address book)
Daniel> either b/c it is known or vulnerable or both. Is The Bat address
Daniel> book and file attachment system and whatever else makes email
Daniel> programs susceptible better protected again virus proliferation? and
Daniel> how about spam mail, what can I do to stop it coming through?
Daniel> much obliged, just searching for a lifeline solution.
Hello Daniel,
You've found it!
You can get rid of spam via the filtering system. There have been
various threads (not long ago), which explained how to set this up.
You can check the archive at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
More help is available via FAQ at http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/FAQ.html
Regarding viruses: you're pretty safe here as long as you don't open
attachments, which you don't know (TheBat doesn't let you open them
without warning anyway). Script and other HTML stuff viruses don't get
triggered because TheBat has it's own HTML displaying machine and
doesn't require IE. (You can't *write* HTML mails yet).
Regards
--
Manfred
using TheBat 1.48e on Windows 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1, RC 1.1
....
4 out of 5 doctors who've tried Hillary prefer camels.
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