Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Clive Taylor
12 June 2002, 21:52, you wrote: JR Reading their material would lead one to think that NOD32 JR was consistently the best antivirus software out there JR [something I would want] but from this list I'm getting JR very mixed signals. I don't think there's any question that NOD is an

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hi Marck. At 8:10 PM on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 you wrote the following about [AVG or NOD32?]: Where does one get the TB! plug-in? Thanks for the URLs. Is there some way to ask RIT labs to consider a plug-in for PC-cillin or how does that work? TIA -- Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jan, @13 June 2002, 08:37:52 -0400 (13:37 UK time) Jan Rifkinson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where does one get the TB! plug-in? Thanks for the URLs. Is there some way to ask RIT labs to consider a plug-in for

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hi Marck. At 8:56 AM on Thursday, June 13, 2002 you wrote the following about [AVG or NOD32?]: Is there some way to ask RIT labs to consider a plug-in for PC-cillin or how does that work? MDP The AVG and Dr.Web plug ins were written by the AV MDP authors themselves. Sample source code

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jan, @13 June 2002, 09:03:01 -0400 (14:03 UK time) Jan Rifkinson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MDP The AVG and Dr.Web plug ins were written by the AV MDP authors themselves. Sample source code for plug-ins was MDP published

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hi Marck. At 9:21 AM on Thursday, June 13, 2002 you wrote the following about [AVG or NOD32?]: MDP [...] I personally would rather see the very small MDP RITlabs team concentrate on getting V2 coded and MDP Trend's very large team concentrate on spreading the MDP use of their AV product

AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-13 Thread Weaven, ChristopherX
Hi all, I think the title say's it all, should I use AVG or NOD32 as my Anti-Virus? I must confess, AVG seems to be working seamlessly with The Bat!, but I have concerns that AVG isn't as good as it could be at trapping virus's (although, it did catch Klez yesterday and added

Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread vb_2073410
when i send a eicar test file from: http://www.aleph-tec.com/eicar/ to myself nod 32 gives an alert, but if i send a zip compressed eicar.com file nod gives no alert . only when i unzip it and try to open the file nod comes on. should be no problem, ultimately the scanner works, but i wonder why

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 1:52 AM, you wrote: ACM I'm not a great fan of POP scanners (the system scanner provides ACM adequate protection IMO) and I'm only using the plugin to assist with ACM testing. If they do manage to get it working more

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Clive Taylor
12 June 2002, 11:26, you wrote: vwn but i wonder why this is , in the main nod32 module under the tab vwn setup , one can choose to have archives scanned (ticked). No idea, but the important thing is that the scanner does trigger an alert when the file is decompressed and 'dangerous.' --

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Clive Taylor
12 June 2002, 11:39, you wrote: PC help me out here Clive, I'm not sure I fully understand how you have PC AVG setup ( or is it NOD ?). I use AVG with TB, I have it set to check PC attachments and check incoming mail. I use NOD and elect to store attachments separate from TB's messages. If an

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Lars Geiger
Hi Clive, On Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 13:30:51 [GMT +0100], you wrote: CT I've never been convinced that scanning outgoing mail is necessary CT if the system is clean and incoming emails/disks are scanned I completely agree with you on this one. If a virus is on your system and has bypassed

Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Pete Milne
Replying to your message of Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 9:29:20 PM: In addition to what I sent you privately, I now have tried every one of them. None of them made it to my inbox, they were all detected by eScan. -- Pete Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:52:37 AM This e-mail is brought to

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Dean
Hello Clive, Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 12:57:49 AM, you wrote: : 12 June 2002, 04:29, you wrote: I've just tried it here. If I double click on a copy of eicar.com, the AMON monitor flashes up and I'm offered the opportunity to, clean, rename, delete or exclude. Are you sure that you

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 8:30 AM, you wrote: CT I use NOD and elect to store attachments separate from TB's messages. CT If an infected message (with or without an attachment) comes in then CT NOD's monitor triggers as the file(s) are being

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Clive Taylor [CT] wrote: CT I use NOD and elect to store attachments separate from TB's CT messages. If an infected message (with or without an attachment) CT comes in then NOD's monitor triggers

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 3:47 PM, you wrote: CT I use NOD and elect to store attachments separate from TB's CT messages. If an infected message (with or without an attachment) CT comes in then NOD's monitor triggers as the file(s) are being CT

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Cartwright [PC] wrote: PC this is the same for both NOD and AVG, am I correct there ??? I don't know about AVG. After doing this, it more solidifies the benefit of the plug-in. The message

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hi Allie. At 3:47 PM on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 you wrote the following about [AVG or NOD32?]: ACM [...] I've tried the plugin and all it really does is ACM alert you that a message is infected, providing you ACM with the message sender and subject. TB! continues to ACM download the message

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Rifkinson [JR] wrote: ACM [...] I've tried the plugin and all it really does is ACM alert you that a message is infected, providing you ACM with the message sender and subject. TB! continues

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Allie, @12 June 2002, 15:52:06 -0500 (21:52 UK time) Allie C Martin wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The message may be cleaned or renegated to a quarantine folder. ... It no doubt functions better than a generic POP3

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread William Moore
Hello Jan Thank you for your email dated Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 9:52:11 PM, in which you wrote: JR would lead one to think that NOD32 was the best antivirus software It's the best I've used but I like to keep things simple so will continue to use it separately. It's fast, it doesn't

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hi Allie. At 5:13 PM on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 you wrote the following about [AVG or NOD32?]: ACM There's a plugin available for NOD32 that works well ACM for incoming messages. I've tested it and it works. ACM When it detects an infected message it can be ACM configured to do one

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Rifkinson [JR] wrote: JR That might be a convenience but what about running anti-virus JR against some file that you get on a disk. How's that going to JR work? Does NOD create a right button

Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Joseph N.
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, Allie C Martin wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ACM It no doubt functions better than a generic POP3 scanner. Allie, I guess that's the real issue. My concern, which perhaps you can address, is this: Eset (the NOD people) are in the AV

Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Joseph N.
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, Jan Rifkinson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: JR Reading their material would lead one to think that NOD32 JR was consistently the best antivirus software out there JR [something I would want] but from this list I'm getting JR very

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joseph, @12 June 2002, 17:00:56 -0500 (23:00 UK time) Joseph N. wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Is the whole plug-in really no more than a call to the NOD32 scanner (the green cross program) with an extra option

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hi Marck. At 6:06 PM on Wednesday, June 12, 2002 you wrote the following about [AVG or NOD32?]: MDP [...] The AV plug-in returns a True/False result and MDP some identification data. TB shows the result (if a MDP positive is found) and moves the offending message to a MDP quarantine folder

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jan, @13 June 2002, 20:01:20 -0400 (01:01 UK time) Jan Rifkinson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where does one get the TB! plug-in? AVG: http://www.thebat.ipex.cz/stazeni/beta/avgbatb7.zip Dr Web:

Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Joseph N.
I know this has been asked and answered, but: the 'configure' button is grayed out. Is that for other plug-ins, but not for NOD? Also: would someone please post the URL for the archives? I could probably search there for the answer -- JN

Re: Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-12 Thread Jonathan Angliss
Hi Joseph, On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:15:53 -0500, you wrote: Also: would someone please post the URL for the archives? I could probably search there for the answer Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com It's in the footer ;) -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Weaven, ChristopherX
Hi all, I think the title say's it all, should I use AVG or NOD32 as my Anti-Virus? I must confess, AVG seems to be working seamlessly with The Bat!, but I have concerns that AVG isn't as good as it could be at trapping virus's (although, it did catch Klez yesterday and added

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Pete Milne
Replying to your message of Tuesday, June 11, 2002, 7:12:15 AM: WC Can people elaborate and help me make this decision? Chris, I can help you with this but it wouldn't be using NOD or AVG. We have a solution that will work seamlessly with TB! or any other email client. Your email will be

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Clive Taylor
11 June 2002, 14:12, you wrote: WC Hi all, WC If I used NOD32, I'd like it to link in with The Bat! and scan when mails WC come in rather than on the server, but it appears there's a problem with the WC options once the plug-in is added? NOD32 comes with an excellent POP3 scanner that's easy

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Clive Taylor [CT] wrote: CT NOD32 comes with an excellent POP3 scanner that's easy to CT configure and works well with TB. Forget the (beta) plug in that's CT mentioned here. It doesn't really add

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Clive Taylor
11 June 2002, 16:57, you wrote: ACM Will NOD32's POP3 scanner create a quarantine folder *within TB!'s ACM interface*, where infected messages are stored and the attachments ACM non-executable? No, thank God. I don't want infected messages anywhere near my database - let alone allowing TB to

Re[2]: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Joseph N.
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Allie C Martin wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: See capture image here: [...] as seen in the capture: [...] Allie, The screen caps show a different font in the header display and the folder tree than I can get. I can't find a place to set

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Clive Taylor [CT] wrote: CT No, thank God. God help you then with the false positive's that may occur. :-) CT I don't want infected messages anywhere near my database - let CT alone allowing TB

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph N. [JN] wrote: JN The screen caps show a different font in the header display and JN the folder tree than I can get. I can't find a place to set those, JN and changing other settings won't

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Clive Taylor
11 June 2002, 18:13, you wrote: ACM However, the plugin does offer ACM interesting alternatives, so don't mislead by saying it doesn't add any ACM functionality. :-( Well, we'll have to disagree over this plug-in's usefulness, Allie, but I just hope for your sake that part of its functionality

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Allie C Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Clive Taylor [CT] wrote: CT Well, we'll have to disagree over this plug-in's usefulness, No problem there at all. Just felt the need to make that distinction, i.e., no useful functionality, a

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Dean
Hello Allie and Others, I'd like to take this to TBOT as I am going to ask those who are running different antivirus programs to test something out with The Bat. I currently am using NOD, and have downloaded the eicar test file to check for problems from this site:

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Clive Taylor
12 June 2002, 04:29, you wrote: D My question to fellow Bat users that using different AV's and NOD is: D Can you delete the eicar file with NOD after it is downloaded onto your D machine. I've just tried it here. If I double click on a copy of eicar.com, the AMON monitor flashes up and I'm

Re: AVG or NOD32?

2002-06-11 Thread Clive Taylor
11 June 2002, 18:55, you wrote: ACM I'm not a great fan of POP scanners (the system scanner provides ACM adequate protection IMO) and I'm only using the plugin to assist with ACM testing. If they do manage to get it working more smoothly, I may just ACM make using it permanent. I'm with you on