At 10:56 AM 2/6/2003, Alan Brown wrote:
Norton AV works quite well in conjuction with Eudora. Eudora stores attachments as separate files. When it goes to write out an attachment that's infected, Norton intercepts and alerts. This is with the "email protection" capability turned OFF, so that it's not intercepting.On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, The Little Prince wrote:> i agree with the SMTP AUTH statements. be aware, if you're on a system > that uses Norton AV, this has a habit of not letting AUTH work with the > defaults. That's because Norton interferes with the normal data path by seting itself up as a pop3/smtp server and redirecting all local client traffic to itself, while talking to the remote servers.
We've found it to generally be updated with new virus definitions much sooner than F-Secure's product.Quite frankly, Norton AV is crap.
It inconveniences users, so they bypass it. You're better off using F-Prot or similar (which is also significantly cheaper).
YMMV
Actually, Symantec is NOT spamming. There are plenty of Warez copies being peddled on the 'net. Symantec themselves used to be bad about unsolicited email, but appears to have mended their ways. They do have a serious problem with piracy (and those pirates spam the world).Not to mention that Norton are spammers and so are McAfee.
We're now quite far off topic.
