On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 07:29:29 [GMT +0100] (which was 07:29 where I live) Chris Brouwer wrote:
CB> Still, I would rather have a virus scanner preventing an infected CB> file even to reach my harddisk. Well, the main problem with using TheBat! and an on-access scanner is that it does exactly that. When TheBat! is downloading mail, it is temporarily saved to a file in the %TEMP directory. If an on-access scanner catches a virus there and blocks access to the file, TheBat! can no longer process the message and to TheBat! the message remains 'undownloaded'; as a result, each time it checks for mail again, a new warning will be received and short of using the Distpatcher to kill the offending mail off the server, there is no other way to solve this. CB> On the other hand, I still would like to know how these TB plugins CB> work, where to get them, etc. As much for technical curiosity as CB> for trying to find out if I need to do more for my anti virus CB> protection. It would be nice to have a combination of both. Using the on-access scanner for regular work, and the TB plugins for mailscan. One could tell the on-access scanner to skip the %TEMP directory and install an apropriate plug-in for the virus scanner; unfortunately, TB isn't the only program that uses the %TEMP dir, and other programs like news-software may use it to temporarily store incoming postings that should still be scanned. In order to solve that, one should be able to specify a TB specific %TEMP dir that could then be excluded without wreaking havoc on other sw. -- Greetings, Maurice ICQ: 15724776 | WWW: http://www.kiap.org/ Using The Bat! v1.62/Beta7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
