Hello Melissa, Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 2:52:23 AM, you wrote:
> If you're generally careful, and use a good anti-virus as a backup to > your safe hex practices, there's really no need for an "outgoing" > scanner. I disagree :) > After all...if the program didn't catch something on its way > in, why would you expect it to catch it on the way out? :-) 1) Because we've already seen that message fragments get around virus detection both of an external scanner and of the scanner plugins. The Bat! will reassemble the already checked parts into a virus infected payload. In other words, it *wasn't* a detectable virus when the scanner first checked it but it *is* a detectable virus if I were to forward the message to someone else. 2) Because no matter how good the scanner, virus definitions lag behind initial propagation. It's possible that when the message was received the identification was not in the database but when I try and send/forward the message the updated database will catch it. -- Best regards, Lourdes ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
