Hello Melissa, Sunday, November 3, 2002, 5:35:22 AM, you wrote:
MR> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- MR> Hash: SHA1 MR> On Saturday, November 02, 2002, at 2:57:51 PM PDT, Tom Sadler wrote: >> I'm currently using NOD32 as my AV scanner, and I'd like to put a >> tagline in all outgoing mail to the effect that the mail has been >> scanned by NOD32, version such and such. MR> This is what AVG does, and personally, I don't think it's a very MR> useful "feature". I see it mainly as a way for AVG to get some free MR> advertising space in email being sent out. < LOL > ... and those that shout the loudest have less to shout about perhaps ? MR> Seeing a tag claiming that someone else's AV has scanned the email MR> I receive means nothing to me. I depend only on my own careful MR> practices and the AV/AT of my own choosing (I happen to use NOD32 MR> as well). Same here, seeing the line 'This message scanned by 'X' AV' only brings about a 'So what ??' comment ! MR> Furthermore...such tags can be easily spoofed, so anyone feeling more MR> secure because they see something like that may well be feeling a MR> false sense of security. What if a virus was written to append each MR> email it sends out with a "scanned by..." tag? Yep, the first thing a virus writer does is to make you think their offering isn't a virus .... cf the Klez Cleaner that states it is necessary to turn off your AV before activation ( and then infects you with Klez ) .. must have been a good few caught out with that one :-( MR> The only way for anyone to feel secure is to first trust *their own* MR> careful practices/good judgement, software choices and configurations, MR> and finally the AV/AT software they run and maintain themselves. Agreed - we know our Kaspersky scans all outgoing mail but what matters most to *us* is that incoming mail is scanned, as it should be for whomever our e-mail is sent to :-) As for getting NOD32 to insert such a tag line .... pass < lol > -- Best regards, Barry2 Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
