-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:38:53 PM RE: "what are bat*.tmp files?"
Greetings Avram, On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 1:48:33 PM, you wrote: Acc> Thanks, again. Your explanation this time, was much more clear. Given my Acc> setup, is there any reason (in terms of catching viruses from incoming messages) Acc> why it would be advantageous for me to move to AV software, such as AVG, or some Acc> of the others mentioned on this list that have plug-ins for The Bat? Any Acc> reason to just let well enough alone? Any AV software that is worth it's salt SHOULD, with resident scanner abilities ON, alert when you try and open an e-mail attachment that is infected. As reported within this thread, the plus side of having an e-mail plugin is to quarantine and bring the exact message to your attention. I have seen Norton AV, resident shield only, alert and disappear leaving one to weed through AV logs only to find that the infected file is specified but not the e-mail message that carried the payload. In most cases, as a network engineer of some 28+ years, I want the file AND the message flagged so I can gather all pertinent information as to the sender, ISP, what SMTP server allowed the file to pass and as much routing info as can be gleamed from the RFC-822 header info. Anyway ... I ramble. In the end to each their own. Whatever YOU feel secure doing is what plan of action you need follow. Opinions are like buttholes. Everybody has one BUT, covering your own is your most critical mission. - -- Regards, D Gerard Raftery Sr. If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce today would cost $100, get a million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Business Security 6.0 iQA/AwUBPaSybmGmTEg4iItaEQJ4RACfSYQLo9Cg37Z2UCrCVo7NiYzcWqgAn1z2 U9+Va4orSb91t+JeF6IXuHEN =7BzW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
