Basically what Allie said here. Not that I can resist adding my own two cents...
IMNSHO scanning outgoing email is a useless function. Here's the reasoning: 1. If your virus scanner is doing its job (and you have it enabled to check incoming emails as well as doing realtime checking when you insert a floppy or some such action) then your system won't contract a virus. The Bat! also prevents you from doing some stupid things that might endanger your system. 2. Your virus checker should be checking your system in real time to ensure that there isn't a virus in memory. If you're not running your system with a virus hiding in memory somewhere, then your outgoing mail won't be infected any more than the files you save onto your hard disk. 3. If there *is* a virus in your system's memory that your virus checker hasn't caught (because it's not in its current virus definitions table) then it won't catch it when you send out emails, either. That said, I run NOD32 on my server and Norton on my client systems just to be doubly safe (with outgoing email checks turned off). NOD32 has caught several parasites coming in on emails and nothing has penetrated as far as the NAV checks, but one can never be too paranoid. -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/4 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
