Hi Stan, Saturday, September 13, 2003, 2:41:31 PM, you wrote:
> What version of Kaspersky are you using? I have Personal Edition V. > 4.0.5. The Monitor doesn't have any email settings that I can see. > There is a separate "AntiVirus Email Checker" component with different > settings than those you describe. > The user can't configure the email checker directly in my version. You > have to do it through the Outlook Tools menu even though you don't use > Outlook as your email client. (one of several braindead features of > Kaspersky's overall design!) But it seems to know how to find the > active client. I get a Kaspersky logo next to the tray (WinXP) while > downloading mail. > I haven't noticed any download speed problems, but I am using TB > 1.62r. I'm using Kaspersky version 4.0.6.0, Personal Edition. When I go to the Monitor settings, and click on the Objects button, on the far right I am given choices of what I want to scan. Under "Compound Files" are the settings I was referring to. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear about that. My fault. Anyway, one of the choices there is "plain mail". That's the one I have unmarked, to improve performance. I just don't want to leave myself open to problems if I leave it unmarked. The two things I left checked are "Archives with self-extractors" and "Embedded objects". I also have Kaspersky Monitor set to scan "All Files" on my hard drive. That setting is located a few items above the other one. The other choice was "All infectable", but I've always felt more secure with the "All Files" setting. That's why I'm wondering if that setting is sufficient in itself, where I wouldn't need to worry about the "plain mail" setting. Maybe checking "plain mail" was overkill in the first place. I don't know. The e-mail checker part of Kaspersky I don't use, since it's specifically for Outlook, and I don't use Outlook. I wrote to Kaspersky once asking about this feature, and they are the ones that told me that the mail checker was just for Outlook (I'm assuming for Outlook Express too, but I don't know). Can viruses come in plain e-mail? I know they can in HTML mail and also in attachments, but I'm not sure about plain e-mail. There was a time when the answer would have definitely been "no", but now-a-days it's hard to tell. :) -- Best regards, Kim ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
