-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Thu, 4 Nov 2004, @ @ at 17:03:59 -0600, when P.Johnson wrote:
> Hello, > I'm getting a new computer and want to get the best firewall and virus > protection I can, and have been looking at Trend Micro PC-cillin > Internet Security. I am wondering if any TB! users have tried this > suite; and more generally, if there has to be specific compatibility > between email programs and virus software. > On the Trend site, under System Requirements, email, The Bat! is not > listed. I asked whether PC-cillin would scan my TB! mail, and got this > reply: > "We have no answer to this question for now but you may try using your > software but please enable the webmail scan feature. If you experience > any problems, please do not hesitate to write us. > Hope this helps." > Hmmm. Yah. You simply could try some AV which is not at all specifically tied/dedicated to e-mail traffic; simply an engine which will treat ALL sorts of activities in the same way, controlling *everything* what happens to your machine - *including* mail traffic (without any need for a dedicated "plug-in"). One of such ones is AntiVir (Personal Edition, which is free) I use often, and it (the "Guard" part of it) will react on ANY occurrence which involves a "suspicious" file/action. It is *very light* in spending resources whilst it monitors machine. And although I have pretty tight selective download filters, here and there AntiVir is catching some infected file, and asks me for action I'd prefer (renaming, deleting, denying/allowing access etc.). It does that very fast, so you can proceed download of other messages of that account, "on the fly". It will react even if just a single *component* used for building a viruses, trojans etc. is found in a file, warning you about possible "hazard" such file can cause. (The example is when a program for revealing passwords is shown in a file manager; such program is NOT a virus/trojan, but has some components used for building them. Another example are shareware programs having components for "phoning home", etc.) There are plenty of good AV programs, so is not very grateful to say which one is "best", but basically those which are able to function "independently", that is to treat all files/occurrences "equally", using no special "plug-in" (which requires some sort of "integration" with a particular application, which, further, might be a cause of possible "complications"), are most reliable. - -- Mica PGP key uploaded at: <http://pgp.mit.edu/> once just before breakfast :flagmica: [Earth LOG: 65 day(s) since v3.0 unleashing] OS: Windows 98 SE Micro Lite Professional IVa Enterprise Millennium with nestled ZipSlack(tm) 9.1 UMSDOS Linux; and, for TB sometimes Libranet (Linux) 2.8.1, via Cross Over Office -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFBi33K9q62QPd3XuIRAvOlAJ9wyZXts8/6EV6MmKMLPQSihTq1CQCgiNOJ QuWZ1sQnaijGpiK5nx3rMgA= =Kc4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
