On Saturday, January 18, 2003, 11:10 AM, you wrote:
AM> I decided to make this message not thread with yours since it's a AM> different, though related issue that aught not to be lost in the 'HTML AM> mail or not' debate. thanks, I almost missed the answer while reading 57 new messages quickly this morning:) PC>> actually, I'm having a problem in TB with html attachments. when I PC>> get a message with a message.htm in the left pane, I click on it, PC>> and get a dialog box that says: File extension is htm <SNIP> do PC>> you want to save the file to disk instead of opening it? AM> Yes. I always click NO to save it. AM> You can prevent this by adding the .htm and .html extensions to your AM> list of extensions to open without warning. This setup is in the AM> Options//Preferences dialog. thanks, that worked, that did it! PC>> I say "NO" and get another error message dialog box that says: PC>> the anti-virus has reported an error, the file cannot be checked for PC>> viruses. AM> This is an anti-virus plug-in problem. You can temporarily prevent AM> this by disabling the plug-in option to check attachments before AM> opening them. hmm, not sure I want to do that with HTML, I don't think it is necessary to change that, since I added the open "*.HTM" to the file type menu. PC>> I click OK, and the email message comes back to me, but the html PC>> attachment doesn't open. I have 2 antivirus plugins, the NOD32 PC>> (test version 0.1) and AVG 10. I am using AVG, and I don't PC>> remember why I added the NOD32 plugin. AM> Are you using the plug-ins for both anti-virus programs at the same AM> time? If so, then this could very well be your problem. Use only one AM> of them for plug-in purposes. The other thing is that if you have the AM> other doing real-time scanning then there could be a conflict with the AM> real-time scanner checking the file when it's being opened while the AM> plug-in is trying to do the same. Let only one scanner do one thing at AM> a time. I deleted the NOD32 entry, left AVG. AM> I have both DrWeb and NOD32 installed here. I use DrWeb's plug-in and AM> not NOD32's. I however use NOD32's real-time scanner and not DrWeb's. AM> :) I don't have the plug-in options to check attachments on opening or AM> saving them enabled, since NOD32's real-time scanner already does this AM> and I don't wish to cause a conflict. These conflicts can lead to AM> errors, system instability, and even BSOD's. ok, I'm not sure I understand. In TB you can add plugins. I don't have NOD32 installed, I just had the plugin setup in TB. I am using AVG as my real time scanner ( I guess), it is my default anti-virus program that runs all the time and scans my system every night. -- Paul Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/4 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
