-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello DG,
On 24 October 2003, 08:12 -0400 ( 13:12 local time) DG Raftery Sr. [DRS] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darrin>> I have Norton AV 2004 and it scans incoming and outgoing emails just Darrin>> fine DRS> And an absolute waste of system resources and totally redundant as DRS> well. What makes you think if your system is doing a resident scan of DRS> open files and your e-mail (inbound) is checked with the AV program DRS> that there is a possibility that a virus will be present to outbound DRS> mail that is detectable? DRS> There is one slight possibility that this may happen if your AV was DRS> updated in the short span of an incoming mail check and an outgoing DRS> reply holding an attachment that contained a new virus added to the AV's DRS> database but an occurrence of such is of extremely low possibility. Why do you describe things as if it all happens immediately? Conceivably, someone could receive an infected message today when no definitions are available and then forward it two weeks later after a definition is issued. Since the virus is contained in a message it won't be picked up by routine scanning. But it may be picked up by the plug-in. Surely, the scan is not about certifying a message clean but rather saving the sender embarrassment of sending a virus? Alas, my Sophos plug-in no longer seems to function with TB! 2.01.x and the latest Sophos build... - -- As ever, Martin Webster The Bat! 2.01.3 w/ BayesIt! 0.4gm (Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.2 iQA/AwUBP5sAs1v+PP8p0/caEQIKqwCg2z0H4jJGyrMgRq1ZLrf+hSHYV2UAnAti gnxvp7peD1yfp9eYoxcSQBPd =KrSx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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