Hello Allie, Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 7:16:23 PM, you wrote:
HT>> Yes... I will.. but PGP has been under development for decades. HT>> SecureBat is very promising, but it is new. There will be HT>> weaknesses. So even with SecureBat I'd probably still install it HT>> on a PGP-Disk. ACM> So you aren't uncomfortable about all your mail residing in a single ACM> file which, if corrupted, leads to loss of all your mail. Correct. :) I've head my share of 'testing' what happens when you have a PGP Disk open en the computer suddenly shuts down. PGP Disk always just mentioned it was shutdown improperly, but then does a check and opens up again. One issue for example I have with PGPDisk is that it behaves TOO MUCH like a regular disk, in that if your computer is on a network, an administrator can share the thing (only while it's open of course) and do anything with your files. Perhaps uninstalling file sharing would work, but then there are times I actually need to share a file or drive. ACM> While using SecureBat!, one of my message bases corrupted. I therefore ACM> had to restore the errant message base from a backup, loosing all the ACM> messages that came in after the backup was done. Hm. :) That never happened in 3 years using Forte Agent, with 2 years of Agent sitting on a PGPDisk, pretty much open (Note that I'm NOT saying that the Agent-PGP disk combination is in any way equally secure as SecureBat, (it's undoubtably less secure), but I'm just talking reliability. Agent was open on my computer (2 instances of it) 10 hours a day, almost every day of the week through several power-cuts and other system crashes, with total message data at about 60 MB, and I never lost a byte of data. I guess one way to test how PGPDisk deals with file corruption is to open up a HEX editor and go corrupt some stuff. :-) Anyway, I'll look at Securebat before deciding which version to buy. Cheers, Han. +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Han Thomas 25/1 Moo 2 Pa Bong, Saraphee | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chiang Mai 50140 THAILAND | +----------------------------------------------------------+ -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
