-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <mid:862904616.20021027191341@;myrealbox.com>, Vishal Nakra [VN] wrote:'
SM>> Norton, et. al., scan email by intercepting the ports used for SM>> transferring email. The plugins are modules directly called by the SM>> email program,, thus don't incur the extra overhead of intercepting SM>> and parsing the POP3/SMTP data stream. VN> Makes sense. That's what I thought too. Thanks. Additionally, the plugin allows you to do specific things with infected messages. You can quarantine them, completely delete them, delete the infected attachments, attempt to cure the attachments, send a notification to the originating address. You can use the plugin to check attachments before you save them to disk or before executing them. You cannot achieve all this without a plug-in and this is why I like the concept so much. There's added functionality and not just merely another way to detect viruses in e-mail. POP3 scanners, Winsock Scanners, real-time scanners, and finally manual scanning all provide ways of detecting the virus. - -- Allie C Martin \ TB! v1.62/Beta7 & WinXP Pro (SP1) List Moderator / PGP Key - http://pub-key.ac-martin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Win32) - GPGshell v2.60 iD8DBQE9vIi4V8nrYCsHF+IRAlerAKCC25sPG1pcQFT1Q7nvEeMEJoVDaQCgzRcE Wv5atsCpsSQ0UBiPI/0thxc= =7U9m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
