-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, January 11, 2003, Spyder wrote...
> Does anyone know of a utility that will tell you the "path" to the > internet that your data takes? Like: > IE5 --> antivirus --> parental filter --> software firewall --> nic > card > nic card --> software firewall --> email antivirus --> spam filter --> > the bat > connection center > I am curious who looks at an email 1st, the anti virus package or > spam filter (both being from different vendors) or even what > programs take a peak at data before it goes outside the computer. It depends on the software you're using. If you're using a anti-virus plugin, then the spam filter will get first shot at the mail. If however you're just running something such as Norton, then Norton will get first shot at the data, in most cases. This is because Norton is 'listening' to attempts to connect to certain ports. On those connections, it is attempting to seize the connection, and pass it through the scanner. Even in the event you are running software such as parent filters, Norton would more than likely step in front anyway. The only case that this is unlikely to be a valid statement is in the firewall itself, which gets all the way down to the TCP stack, and handles the connections from there, trying to override what the operating system should do with the data. As for a utility, I couldn't say. I don't know if they'd exist as each step would need to somehow 'tag' the data as having been seen by each level of software for you to be able to see the path it took on your computer. As I don't believe the software ever does this (with the exception of some virus scanners tagging emails as being 'scanned'), I think it'd be difficult to do. - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Fingerprint: 676A 1701 665B E343 E393 B8D2 2B83 E814 F8FD 1F73 iQA/AwUBPiCW9SuD6BT4/R9zEQKibQCg35qvcLFvJLeD+/tmXQXOBFuaDzEAoLKE lwM+ICMSO1NZwP2HocQq18lq =Ikkz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
