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Thank you very much.

I've checked, and it was already enabled. I'm too chicken to put it to
the test though. [1]

[1] Although it appears there are some here who would love me to give it
a go.

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No conflicts or problems at all. In my limited experience, nothing
seems to agree very much with 98.

 

It was a bit tongue in cheek but I was still calling you daft because

You seem to think/have thought that AV software stops emails.

 

They seem to come in pairs. MS security patch (156.5K att), followed a
few minutes later by a mail failure notice (143.5K att). Just got a pair
actually - 12.14 and 12.21am All the same crap.

You can just use the simple 'not to me' rule that's already loaded on
Mailwasher:

If the To field doesn't contain "" and not
"" then mark the message as mail to be deleted.

It's catching 100% of these fucking things without worrying about
attachments or anything else.

gary

 

No, I thought/assumed that AV software would warn me of a virus [1] prior
to being daft enough to open the attachment, and also clean the virus up.
[2]

Anyway, being as I am being such a numpty at the moment, what is the
point in upgrading your AV software to stop virus attacks (including via
email) if it doesn't actually do it? Or have I missed the point, again?
I would like to know.

As I said previously I don't have the bottle to open something like that
even with all the AV stuff available 'cos it should work', because I
would rather not go through the trouble of getting rid of the virus when
I've done enough pooters recently because they haven't had the nowse to
upgrade. [3]

I give up.

[1] ie, somebody on here posts, 'ooh, I got such n such an email today
that had xxx virus that my AV warned me about and stopped it
downloading'. That sort of thing made me think about the effectiveness
of my AV, and that's a bad thing?

[2] This, it appears, puts me in the fuckwittery area. And after
scouring the internet and doing an online scan in order to be informed
that my AV isn't doing it's job.

[3] And what is the point of me asking the question about upgrades in
the first place, if it turns out to be pointless? [4]

[4] Am I on a spiralling loop into darkness here?

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Ta, I'll consider it when I upgrade then. )

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It is annoying, isn't it? Most of them get put into the spam folder
anyway but I'm thinking of trying mailwash and see how it performs, given
the advice earlier.

I was under the impression that the attachments would be cleaned by the
AV, apparently I am wrong.

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On 25 Sep 2003 00:25:08 +0100, Gary N. cried forth...

Is it ok to use this with the cloudmark anti-spam jobbie?

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So me accusing you of being daft was a hammer/nail interface then?

IANAE but upgrading your AV software with the latest virus
definitions ensures that *should* a virus get into your system it
will be picked up immediately

But why would you 'open something like that'? You're obviously smart
enough to realise that it *may* be an infected file so you just get
rid of it (1)

I'd like you to show me exactly where that has been said on here
before.

Really?


(1) Or as lots of others have suggested, use Mailwasher. It only
downloads the headers.

 

Tar lar.

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D'Oh! So simple. Cheers.

 

Hi Lesley,

I use Norton Anti-Virus 2002, on Windows 98SE. I upgraded fronm 98
just over six months ago.

I have enabled e-mail protection and it scans incoming mail and offers
to delete incoming attachments that are detected as viruses.

I have no problems with stability of Norton. Mind you, I have no games
on my PC and never install freeware or PC cover discs just to see how
they work.

I do not allow Norton System Works to run in the background hogging
memory, I use it only when needed.

I back up the whole system to tape and run frequent defrags and disk
scans. Whe I start to get disc drive holes and problems I replace the
hard drive, ghosting the old one first.

I then use system file checker to fix the dodgy system files, but
using common sense rather than blanket restore.

HTH.


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d'oh! I hadn't noticed that they're all "not to me"

 

Champ said:

That statement sums up so much...

 

Don't see why not. Mailwasher checks mail before you open Outlook, from
the blurb on their site Spamnet is an add-on working within it.
Shouldn't interfere (ICBW) but you'll be doing the same job twice.

gary

 

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:32:50 GMT, (Steve
Uzochukwu) said

I use mailwasher, along with AVG and the free ZA. Touch wood, clean so
far. Now and again I run Housecall on my pc just as a back-up.

 

Did any of these infected emails cause you any problems?

 

You missed out the "successfully did a restore from the back-up
tape".

 

Don't use an OS that is so shite ? [1]

[1] I make no recommendations, no insinuations etc etc etc.

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No, because most of them got put into the Spam folder anyway, and I
didn't open the ones that weren't.

I'm more concerned about the fact that the AV didn't do it's job, even
using the online virus checker, purely out of curiosity. When I used a
different online checker it informed me of x amount of infected
attachments, which was worrying, so I wanted to know what people might
recomment that actually picked the attachments up and sorted them out.
Bearing in mind other AV software that has been used and didn't appear to
work.

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