Re[2]: AVG plug in
Hello Spike, Actually it depends on the digital sign used. If a thawte or Verisign digital signature is used it means the sender took the time to enter his/her password and send from his client. That is the purpose of such devices. So long as it must be entered when the email is sent and for each it should be valid and as such does mean that the sender is legitimate and using proper keys. Now in The bat I should think that would be even better. Unfortunately there are those keyboard capture virus/trojans out there ,however, I am pretty sure those would not work on the passwords entered for Certs because not only the key presses are needed. Also the mapping keys. The Bat should nicely handle that! I have to say if every email was authenticated and every IP address we would have a lot less hacker problems in general! Imagine every IP traceable to a digital cert owner all traffic accountable and thereby safer by Id-ing each and every IP address. Firewalls could then handle abuse rather than waste time with it. Monday, March 3, 2003, 2:52:15 PM, you wrote: S Hello Deborah W, S On or about Monday, March 03, 2003 at 18:33:13GMT + (which was S 1:33 PM in the tropics where I live) Deborah W posted: DW Certification of emails doesn't make them more secure anyway, doesn't DW prove anything much, so I wouldn't worry about it :-) S 30% of the virus files I get say something about being 'certified S virus free' or similar. It's a non-issue. Anti-virus is an issue for S the receiver. Most virus senders are clueless individuals to start S with. If you can put two or three coherent sentences together, you're S not part of the problem! -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
How do you enable Connection Centre feature on a LAN based PC??
Hello , Thursday, March 27, 2003, 3:40:43 AM, you wrote: I can not figure how to enable the Connection Centre on a LAN based connection? I like the features of this so How do I get it to work?? -- Best regards, Robert Silver Sr. Software Engineer DISTINCTLY DIGITAL SERVICES Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Sobig
Hello Mike, Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 9:16:06 PM, you wrote: MA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MA From: Mike Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA Precedence: list MA Subject: Re: Sobig MA Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:16:06 + MA To: Robert Silver [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MA MIME-Version: 1.0 MA Message: 12 MA Hi Robert, MA Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 4:08:20 PM, you wrote: RS Hello , RS Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 10:59:49 AM, you wrote: RS I am getting very annoyed by the existence of way too many infected RS emails with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] virus RS This virus causes Norton antivirus to continually put up popup alerts. RS Now the bat used to do this for Klez. Is it possible to download RS definitions to update the bats current virus detection settings or a RS patch for this purpose? MA Now that is really weird. My Norton just deals with it. (you know, MA it downloads it deals with it and leaves a text message saying it's MA done so). Is your Norton AV up to date? Definition wise yes but. I have AV 2000 on this machine and it seems to deal strangely with this virus. It stores temp files on disk and that trigger AV pop ups to annoying extremes as 100s of popups happen as part of the folder filter process. Nothing is infected but it is annoying. I imagine any virus embeded email is safe with the_bat Also if you know of any substitute SMTP programs I might use to filter out such viruses or worm as in this case! My ultimate solution was to turn off auto protect and receive the mail then I looked for .pif attachments and found one with subject: Re: Documents I then both tried the removal to verify no infection took place and sure enough none occurred. I then truned back on auto-protect. -- Best regards, Robertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Sobig
Hello , Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 10:59:49 AM, you wrote: I am getting very annoyed by the existence of way too many infected emails with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] virus This virus causes Norton antivirus to continually put up popup alerts. Now the bat used to do this for Klez. Is it possible to download definitions to update the bats current virus detection settings or a patch for this purpose? -- Best regards, Robert Silver Sr. Software Engineer DISTINCTLY DIGITAL SERVICES Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
I want to clarify I few things here
Editing in HTML and sending Emails in HTML is expected in this century. Yes Text messages have their place too, however, do not stamp your feet and send a plain message to friend or potential client. Many people like html mail This why the smartest setting on Email is both html and text outbound and if you never want to see HTML just set your receive mode to accept only the text part of an html email or bounce the message, however, do not deprive other users from HTML mail which still has its place. A client of mine is just the oposite. Hates text plain messages. Loves HTML which is why she does not care for the BAT. Also it makes a product look hoky when graphics com up as square [X] instead of what it should have. I do agree Javascript should be a security feature enabled or disabled by the user. I completely disagree about the let the browser do the work. People like convenience. i use Opera at times and find it to open fast so this is less of an issue for me now, but would not it be nice to down arrow each message seeing a preview displayed without the [X} graphics and render the actual page with or without script or applet/active X or flash enable?? Take a look at HotMetal which embeds explorer code. I think something like that can be done and give you the control while using a dll interface from the browser vendor to more quickly render the web page clearly and securely. Again these features should be configurable I think News groups are an important part of an Email client as well. TB needs to match the Eudora capbilities while leaving out the security flaws and inefficiencies, but provide the capability to display messages and edit messages in HTML. Again I think a simple switch when installing should nicely take care of the Mr. Text onlys who hate HTML email. News groups are important and so is the ability to edit HTML and receive and display it. Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re address of my points regarding improvements for the Bat
Hello tbudl, I doubt anyone will complaint if the bat introduced the following improvements: Web page viewing Option Web Page Editing option NNTP USENET News Reader Option Component wise configuration backup and restore including Folder sorting filters auto responders etc.. Everything configurable and any additions to that configuration. Like what they have now only including filters and any configurable component with a replace or append option allowing just new filters to be added for example or replace what is there with what is being restored. As long as these are kept modular and part of a custom install everybody is happy. Those who only want plain text can have only plain text and need not check off the HTML support or varry the degree to old style of new style As components they only load if desired. At least The Bat author will have more popularity for his product. Seems to me he should be thinking about that a lot! -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Is it possible to filter out Futuristic Email e.g with Creation datesmore than 2 days into the future??
Hello tbudl, Lately a lot of spam comes in with dates greater than today. Now a day I can see as there are 24 hrs but 2030 as a year indicates a desire to put their email on the top of the mail listing. Is there a way to filter these emails out?? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
I love the Bat , but why can't the Bat allow me to edit HTMLdocuments or read my USENET news groups. Standard Email features
Hello , Why can't the bat with all its extra features many of them nice but some of them not that important do the following: (1) Edit or use an existing HTML editor in a seamless manner (2) Have the option of viewing HTML pages in its viewer. The double clicking attachments is cumbersome. It would be much better if that feature was simply optional and utilized function calls to existing browser code like Hotmetal used to do or other HTML editors could. (3) Read NNTP News Groups (4) Improve the capability of backing up and restoring configuration information. It should be easy to backup any feature be it folder Sorting FILTERS etc.. -- Sincerely Robert Silver Sr. Software Engineer DISTINCTLY DIGITAL SERVICES Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
