Re: Newbie issues with Sylpheed-Claws Win 32.

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:32:43 +0700 Brian Durant (BD) wrote:

> No, this was a special scan I setup to scan .sylpheed/mimetmp as
> Norton doesn't seem to scan my incoming pop mail. Maybe this is only
> because they don't contain attachments? I would still think the mail
> should be scanned.

NAV200x using socket layer scanning (something like sniffing port
25/110) when you activate real time scanning, he said it is heuristic
scanning :-)
IMHO I never trust mail AV that scan mail without decode first, too many
false alarm :-)

>  If as Thorsten says, SC hangs or crashes when Norton inhibits writing
>  to the mail directory until having scanned for viruses, isn't this a
>  bug rather than a feature?

NAV with realtime scanning always broke high speed mua (makes processing
time out), I noticed this happened also for The Bat! user. RTS does scan
the files while still in RAM.

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syafril
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Syafril Hermansyah<syafril-at-dutaint.co.id>


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