Hello ETM, On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:49:09 -0400 GMT (31/08/02, 00:49 +0700 GMT), ETM wrote:
E> Can someone expand on the ramifications of these statements? E> Limitations E> Plugin doesn't certify messages due to a nature of the anti-virus E> plugin interface of The Bat!. The plugin is called only on message E> attachments. A virus can only be in an attachment. I don't know what they mean by "the message", but since they say it is different from the attachment, it could only be the plaintext part of any message. Now, the plaintext part cannot contain a virus. E> Known issues E> Embedded messages are not currently scanned. Security through obscurity? I don't know what an embedded message is. I have never come across this term in the RFC's. I can only assume that it means the same as above - a plaintext message is not scanned. This is no problem. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Die Streichhoelzer muessen gut versteckt werden, damit sie keine kleinen Kinder bekommen. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
