Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 12:19:27 AM, you wrote: ACM> @ 19:05:47 +0000 [ Tue, 1 Jan 2002], John Rainer [JR] thoughtfully ACM> wrote the following: ACM> ... JR>> Re the stuff on Norton and XP below: (related to Norton AV 2002 JR>> and the loss of the autodelete function for infected mail after JR>> moving from 2001)
ACM> I'm a PC-Cillin user, and this new system I got came with NAV 2002 ACM> installed.. I've been using it and have so far had one bad experience. ACM> I disable the mail checker since I use the system monitor. However, it ACM> would appear that it stakes out the temp folder and will alert you of ACM> virus or virus-like presence in the temp folder. No problem. However, ACM> TB! was in the process of downloading an infected message and as soon ACM> as NAV2002 detected it in the temp folder it alerted me but this ACM> process somehow prevents TB! from completing the download and deletion ACM> from the server. As a result of this, TB! kept attempting the download ACM> until I had to manually delete the offending message from the server. ACM> This I find annoying. PC-Cillin never did or caused this. This is more or less what I found - 2001 deleted attachments before they were actually received by the mail client by redirecting incoming mail through a local server arrangement. In 2002, what seems to happen is a forced scan of the mail as it is handled by the client, which not only picks up infected mail but also tmp files as they are created. It then says it found two infected files but can only find one of them (as the tmp file has gone), that they cannot be repaired and that after deletion of one file there is still infected mail present, presumably because it can't find the previously infected tmp file. It does go on, though, to complete the mail download - at least, it did for me. None of this can be automated so if you receive a series of badtrans, it gets very tedious. 2001, on the other hand, works fine, fully automatic and adding txt attachments to say what virus was in the deleted attachment. There is a slight drawback from 2002 in that it doesn't scan outging mail, which I can live without anyway. John -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
