Michael Collette wrote: > Norton tries working around this by setting up a mail proxy on the users > box that scans the mail prior to even coming into the InBox. I have to > imagine this was an attempt to not have to deal with variations to the mbox > format that many mail clients have.
I have NAV 2002, but this works for NAV 2001 as well. I have the email scanning turned off, and use NS4.79 for mail/news. NS DLs the mail, infected file and all, and should I click an attachment, and tell it to save to disk, NAV scans it. If there's a virus, I tell it to delete the newly saved file. Sure, the attachment stays in the mbox (actually, not for me, because I delete that whole mail), but it's harmless in MIME encoded format, and can't be saved to disk without triggering the NAV scanner. -- jesus X [ Booze-fueled paragon of pointless cruelty and wanton sadism. ] email [ jesusx @ who.net ] web [ http://www.mozillanews.org ] tag [ The Universe: It's everywhere you want to be. ] warning [ "I hate cats. You never know if they're dead." - E. Schrodinger ]
