-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In <mid:187358835327.20021110112452@;candw.ky>, Spike [S] wrote:'
S> I run The Bat! e-mail client so that I don't HAVE to run ANY S> anti-virus BS. Any anti-virus steals 12-20% of system resources S> and slows down system performance. I know ALL avenues of virus S> propagation, and simply delete them on sight. I can't understand S> all this anal-retentiveness about stopping a virus from getting S> into a mailbox that is IMMUNE to same! I also have any known S> means of "contamination" via a browser disabled as well. Well, this opinion sounds like what Simon may have thought I had during our exchange in the past. Actually, it's not in large part. The only part I agree with is the appreciation that TB! does offer protection in its own way and this offers advantages that using other clients will not. For a user type as yourself, who runs TB! and a) is able to disable browser functionality the way you do without it hampering your being able to get at information on web pages or working with websites that you may need to, b) is in full control of your machine and don't really have anyone else using it, c) has knowledge of all dangerous filetypes or can easily spot a suspicious file, an A-V solution may seem superfluous. Surely you must realize that you're special in this regard and that we can't consider AV Software to be foolishness. Not many have and use their computers in the restricted way that you do. S> In conclusion and _IMHO_, anyone running e-mail virus scanning on S> Bat! mail is severely paranoid. Either that, or they are S> uninformed as to what virus-capable extensions are, in which case S> they then may need it as a crutch. This couldn't be further from the truth. BTW, e-mail is only one source of compromising your machine through viruses. Though it's admittedly the main one, it's not by any means, the only one. - -- Allie C Martin \ TB! v1.62/Beta7 & WinXP Pro (SP1) List Moderator / PGP Key - http://pub-key.ac-martin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Win32) - GPGshell v2.65 iD8DBQE9zpd5V8nrYCsHF+IRAqJNAKDAI9tt4IH681IMzAehVOzPTx4GmACgk82Z 16F8z7K2tfMDapammMP48uk= =25ax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
