Hello Daniel, On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, at 22:52:11 [GMT +0100] (which was 4:52:11 PM in NY, USA) Daniel Dekany wrote:
> I don't understand why people who uses on-access scanner (and you do, > if I don't misunderstand you) want integrate Virus protection with > TB!, but perhaps I miss something. I can't answer for Chris but perhaps he and I share some of these reasons... 1. Just because an anti-virus application has on-access capability does not necessarily mean that they use it as such; one may be able to configure it for on demand only scanning such as I do with Panda. IMO, on access scanning is a huge waste of resources and stability. 2. Many A/V applications disallow (or are administered to disallow) any user intervention when dealing with suspicious files. The majority of the A/V's in this class that I have seen just clean or delete the suspect file without much warning. I'm not comfortable with this. I like to verify that the file is indeed infected before any action is taken. 3. Given the above, I used TB's AVG plug-in as a lazy filter during the heavy Klez attachment days. 4. A second opinion is a good thing. > And if you don't open attachments, then your machine can't caught > viruses with TB! Reading mails is safe. (E-mail agents using MS HTML > rendering engine is a different story... with those agents, reading an > email can active virus, since the MS HTML stuff is too powerful and > may contains bugs that virus can exploit. I remember the iframe > thing...) I think most TB users are of a caliber to whom the safe "never open attachments" rule is a bit extreme. I agree with you in your feeling of security with TB. However, it is only a matter of time until someone again targets TB users just to say they could do so. I'd like to be prepared with a little extra backup when that day comes. -- Best regards, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stamp-co.com The Bat! v.1.62/Beta1 Windows XP build 2600 AMD Athlon 1Ghz 1.0 Gb RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
