Hi Robert, Thursday, February 27, 2003, 3:09:58 PM, you wrote:
RS> Hello Mike, RS> Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 9:16:06 PM, you wrote: MA>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <snipped> First I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't broadcast my address to all and every spammer who trawls through the web site but showing the header info in a reply. Please turn off RFC-882 headers before replying. Thank you. MA>> Now that is really weird. My Norton just deals with it. (you know, MA>> it downloads it deals with it and leaves a text message saying it's MA>> done so). Is your Norton AV up to date? RS> Definition wise yes but. I have AV 2000 on this machine and it seems RS> to deal strangely with this virus. It stores temp files on disk and RS> that trigger AV pop ups to annoying extremes as 100s of popups happen RS> as part of the folder filter process. Nothing is infected but it is RS> annoying. I imagine any virus embeded email is safe with the_bat I think that's your problem. I'm using 2002 and it's having no problems at all. Upgrade from 2000 and I'm sure your problems will disappear. It's not as if the upgrade costs a lot (I upgrade very other year). RS> Also if you know of any substitute SMTP programs I might use to filter RS> out such viruses or worm as in this case! My ultimate solution was to RS> turn off auto protect and receive the mail then I looked for .pif RS> attachments and found one with subject: Re: Documents RS> I then both tried the removal to verify no infection took place and RS> sure enough none occurred. I then truned back on auto-protect. Like I said, upgrading to a more modern version should solve your problem and be cheaper and ;less complicated than adding more software. -- Best regards, Mike ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
