Hello Melissa, On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:43:38 -0800 GMT (06/03/03, 03:43 +0700 GMT), Melissa Reese wrote:
> I'm all for good freeware programs (and thankful to the generous > programmers who offer them), but I'm also happy to pay for software if > I feel it will do a better job than competing freeware (perhaps > especially with regards to security software). There are free email > clients out there. Why do we happily pay for TB!? Because we get a 30-day trial period. I am using PC-Cillin, and while I am quite happy with it, it does not reliably catch viruses that are in attached files when downloading mails. So, I manually save every attachment that might contain a virus (including, for example, .doc and .xls files from friends), and that action would trigger the realtime scan. But then, I am using PCC6 (1999) and the latest version is PCC2003, so this problem might have been addressed on any one of the pay-for updates in the past 4 years. If NOD32 (which gets the most praise on this list) offers a trial period, I am willing to look into it. Does it? One question to those people who said ion an earlier thread they don't use virus scanners but rely on "common sense": how do you tell whether a .doc file has a macro virus if you don't use a virus scanner? Do you open the file in hex editor and scan with your eyes? If so, I admire you if you can spot the code faster than a virus scanner. In fact, I think you could make a lot of money on TV shows like "Ripley's Believe it or not". ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Everybody repeat after me....."We are all individuals." Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/5 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
