Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 11:24:09 PM, you wrote: DAC> On 28 Dec 2001, 10:47:54 AM, John Rainer wrote:
>> The email scanner in 2002 works in a very different way to earlier >> versions and needs no email client configuration. The only automatic >> function seems to be autorepair, which pops up a dialog on every >> infected mail (infuriating) as it can't repair it, plus it picks up >> the tmp file created by the bat, presumably because the mail is >> intercepted in a different way from 2000/2001. To make things worse, >> what's left of any infected mail has most of its headers removed. >> I've heard that 2001 can be got to work in XP, so I might give it a >> try - that worked fine in Windows 2000. DAC> I just received a message with a virus which was detected by NAV 2002. DAC> While it didn't give me a choice to delete, the easy option was to hit DAC> the quarantine button, which I did. The virus got quarantined, the DAC> rest of the mail got collected, and I was able to locate the message DAC> which had had the infected attachment. (I sent to the sender asking DAC> that I be removed from the resident Outlook Express address book and DAC> suggested that the machine be checked for infection. I sent a copy of DAC> the message to the postmaster of the ISP in question and to abuse@ DAC> that address as well. The message to 'postmaster' bounced because her DAC> mailbox was over quota!!) DAC> Anyhow, my point is that NAV 2002 seemed to me to have behaved quite DAC> adequately. Fine for you but not for me, especially after using earlier versions. I'm not denying 2002 works - it does, but the way it works is not as convenient for me as in 2000 and 2001. If you opt for quarantine instead of repair, you still have to hit a button to quarantine the mail otherwise your mail download stops, and after the fifth one, this gets a bit tedious and after the twentieth infuriating. I was getting 40 badtrans a day when it first came out and others were getting many more. You then have to look at all the stuff in quarantine and manually delete it. Having used 2000 and 2001, where there is a dialog-free delete option as first choice for infected mail, not a last ditch alternative after going through repair and/or quarantine dialog, this was a step backward, imho. In 2001, infected attachments can be deleted automatically with no intervention by me and mail downloads proceed uninterrupted without me having to be at my desktop to press a button or have other tasks interrupted. All received mail is still present in my inbox, with all mail information there, but those with infected attachments have their attachments replaced by a text file giving details of the virus that was in the deleted file. If you're happy with 2002, fine - I just prefer the functionality in 2001 and for any others that do, it does seem to work in XP ok if certain precautions are taken at installation. John -- ________________________________________________________ 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
