Panda antivirus plugin
Hi tbudler, I just did a search on google about the panda antivirus plugin. The only plugin I found is the 0.1 test version which seems to work with the latest panda antivirus software. Does someone know if a more recent version has been realeased ? A question to ritlabs's staff : do you plan to publish official antivirus plugins such as the panda one in the future ? -- Greetings, Claude Renaud Secure Bat! v2.13 "Lucky" Beta/5 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Panda antivirus plugin
Hello Claude Renaud, 14-Aug-2004 13:58, you wrote: > I just did a search on google about the panda antivirus plugin. The only > plugin I found is the 0.1 test version which seems to work with the > latest panda antivirus software. Does someone know if a more recent > version has been realeased ? I won't be of any help regarding your question (I know though that Panda AV is a pretty good program)... I just wonder if it is really necessary to have an antivirus plugin for (any) email program. AFAIK most of the modern AV programs either watch incoming traffic on the socket layer and catch (any) virus content, either by email or malicious websites that way, or they offer at least a local virus scanning proxy. I myself am not using either. I even excluded TB's mail directories from the on-access scanner for performance reasons. The on-demand scanner will scan TB's mail archive's anyway during my weekly scan. And if I ever should accidentally choose to save a virus attachment to disk (which is hardly going to happen since my system is protect by my brain, too), the on-access scanner will catch the file, then. Am I missing something or putting myself at larger risk of a virus infection? Am I just not seeing it? -- Best regards, Alexander Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. -- H. W. Beecher Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Panda antivirus plugin
Alexander S. Kunz, [ASK] wrote: > I just wonder if it is really necessary to have an antivirus plugin for > (any) email program. I wouldn't say that it's absolutely necessary because once a realtime, system scanner is running, the infected attachment will be detected before you run it or save it to disk. However, you may wish for more than mere detection at that stage of the acquisition of the infected message. The plugin allows you to do various things with the infected message. - you can have it deleted upon receipt. - you can have the attachment removed/cured upon receipt. - you can have a block of text added to the infected message body stating that it's infected and with which virus/trojan/worms. - you can have the infected message nicely slotted into a quarantine folder. - it can allow for dual protection. Accessing one anti-virus programs monitoring for e-mail via the plug-in and using the system scanner with the other anti-virus plug-in. Your mileage may vary on what you wish or find not worthwhile enough to motivate you into wanting to use a plugin. For me, being able to use the plug-in is a plus, though not a show-stopper. I don't currently use one. However, while using one (at the time it was the DrWeb plugin), I enjoyed being able to have the infected messages auto-quaratined to a special quarantine folder. I also liked being able to easily find out what virus/trojan/worms lurked in the attachments through the text block added at the top of the infected message body. The current challenge with using a plug-in is that they often don't work from TB! version to TB! version, and they often don't work across anti-virus versions. Each time DrWeb released an upgrade, it broke the plug-in and you'd have to wait for a new one to be released. The same for NOD32. -- Allie Martin [List Moderator and fellow end-user] The Bat! v2.12.03 on WinXP Pro (SP2) . ...put knot yore trust inn spel chequers. pgpvvxdf6oTsW.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
NOD32 plugin (was: Re[2]: Panda antivirus plugin)
Hello all, Sunday, August 15, 2004, Allie Martin wrote: > The current challenge with using a plug-in is that they often don't > work from TB! version to TB! version, and they often don't work across > anti-virus versions. Each time DrWeb released an upgrade, it broke the > plug-in and you'd have to wait for a new one to be released. The same > for NOD32. did You tested first beta version of plugin for NOD32 v2? It was created by Maxim some weeks ago and works with last beta of NOD32, which has file nod32api.dll included. We have found only one issue yet, system must be restarted after installing beta of NOD and adding plugin to TB. Plugin can be downloaded here: http://www.thebat.cz/stazeni/beta/nod32.rar (50kB) NOD32 beta is here: http://www.eset.sk/down/downbeta.htm -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.cz Using the best The Bat! 2.13 "Lucky" Beta/5 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Notebook Acer, Pentium4-M 2.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, ADSL line Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: NOD32 plugin (was: Re[2]: Panda antivirus plugin)
Marek Mikus, [MM] wrote: > did You tested first beta version of plugin for NOD32 v2? It was > created by Maxim some weeks ago and works with last beta of NOD32, > which has file nod32api.dll included. We have found only one issue > yet, system must be restarted after installing beta of NOD and > adding plugin to TB. I've noted the availability and have not been interested. I'm not pleased with NOD32's support (I've never had them respond to any of my queries), hence I'll not be trying any of their betas and will likely not renew my subscription since I'm having some problems with the IMON module. -- Allie Martin [List Moderator and fellow end-user] The Bat! v2.12.03 on WinXP Pro (SP2) . Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say. pgpzP6WXLJHhP.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
