Kaspersky

[Mike Lee]

I am using Kaspersky AnitVirus at the moment on XP Home Edition.
The "Swen" virus gets on my PC and Kaspersky dont see it when it comes
in an Email, but when I use it to do a Virus scan it sees the "Swen"
virus and I use the delete option, after I run Kaspersky again and it is
there again!

As for Email programs are concerned I have read this and it seems it is
for Microsoft Outlook and not Outlok Express.
This is not as good as I was expecting. As I do not have Outlook but
the ususal Outlook Express6.0

I also have AVG free edition, if I get the "Swen" virus it dont see it.

I have Norton Virus Professional, but as yet not installed, I need an
opinion, what the heck is going to be the best Anti-Virus program to use
on my system?

I need one that will see Virus infected Emails....

Can any one please sugest what is the best to use....

TIA.

Mike...

 

[nicky]

I am using Kaspersky AnitVirus at the moment on XP Home Edition.
The "Swen" virus gets on my PC and Kaspersky dont see it when it comes
in an Email, but when I use it to do a Virus scan it sees the "Swen"
virus and I use the delete option, after I run Kaspersky again and it is
there again!

I also have KAV and AVG..it may be that you have both running at once and
that AVG is picking up on it first or simply that KAV isn't alerting because
you haven't executed the infected email.

If you are using AVG with the OE plug in then that will detect infected
emails whereas KAV might not until you open them.
(I had this with a malformed bugbear email a while back, AVG alerted on it
and KAV, quite rightly didn't..quite rightly because it wasn't technically
bugbear..What it did alert me to was that I had turned off the AVG resident
shield but that I hadn;t manually turned off the email checking bit)

Nicky

 

[Jari Lehtonen]

I am using Kaspersky AnitVirus at the moment on XP Home Edition.
The "Swen" virus gets on my PC and Kaspersky dont see it when it comes
in an Email, but when I use it to do a Virus scan it sees the "Swen"
virus and I use the delete option, after I run Kaspersky again and it is
there again!

I also have AVG free edition, if I get the "Swen" virus it dont see it.

Maybe it is packed in the email message and you have the option not to
scan inside packet with on-linen monitor scans, but you have the
packets inspected on a manual scan?

jari

 

[Veronica Loell]

Mike Lee wrote / skrev:

I need one that will see Virus infected Emails....

Can any one please sugest what is the best to use....

TIA.

Mike...

I run norton with "manually configured email client" that means
basically that I put Pop3.norton.antivirus as the pop3-mail-server and
myaccount/mymailserver as my account name. I would imagine that other
antivirus software have the same sort of option, it will work with any
pop3-email client.

- Veronica Loell

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

Mike Lee wrote / skrev:

I run norton with "manually configured email client" that means
basically that I put Pop3.norton.antivirus as the pop3-mail-server and
myaccount/mymailserver as my account name. I would imagine that other
antivirus software have the same sort of option, it will work with any
pop3-email client.

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Client Security and NOD32 both scan e-mail
at the protocol level. There is no local proxy server and no need to
reconfigure you mail client to use them.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[Richard Weedermyer]

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Client Security and NOD32 both scan e-mail
at the protocol level. There is no local proxy server and no need to
reconfigure you mail client to use them.

Yes But what about Kaspersky???? Does anyone know about it?????????

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

Yes But what about Kaspersky???? Does anyone know about it?????????

Did you check the Kaspersky web site or documentation? Kaspersky Anti-
Virus Personal & Personal Pro have the ability to scan E-mail.

From <http://www.kaspersky.com/buyonline.html?info=25>:

Permanent e-mail anti-virus filtration

Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Personal automatically checks for viruses in all
incoming and outgoing messages in real time, and will prevent viruses
from penetrating your computer. Supporting many e-mail database formats
(MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, MS Exchange, Eudora, MS Mail, Pegasus
Mail, Netscape Mail, JSMail, MIME), the program is effective against
viruses in e-mail-message storage areas. In addition to this, the built
in Mail Checker efficiently removes viruses from e-mail messages in MS
Outlook, MS Exchange Client, and completely restores the original
contents of your messages.

Note: Even if your anti-virus software doesn't scan e-mail directly any
e-mail attachment that you open is scanned automatically by your anti-
virus softwares on-access scanner.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[ah]

Did you check the Kaspersky web site or documentation? Kaspersky Anti-
Virus Personal & Personal Pro have the ability to scan E-mail.

From <http://www.kaspersky.com/buyonline.html?info=25>:

Permanent e-mail anti-virus filtration

Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Personal automatically checks for viruses in all
incoming and outgoing messages in real time, and will prevent viruses
from penetrating your computer. Supporting many e-mail database formats
(MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, MS Exchange, Eudora, MS Mail, Pegasus
Mail, Netscape Mail, JSMail, MIME), the program is effective against
viruses in e-mail-message storage areas. In addition to this, the built
in Mail Checker efficiently removes viruses from e-mail messages in MS
Outlook, MS Exchange Client, and completely restores the original
contents of your messages.

Note: Even if your anti-virus software doesn't scan e-mail directly any
e-mail attachment that you open is scanned automatically by your anti-
virus softwares on-access scanner.

Sorta on-topic:

Been testing a Kaspersky 30-day trial, here (Win2K; Mozilla 1.6), and suddenly
infected/suspected emails are getting locked: can't do anything with them
except look at the Subject: . . . I believe this has to do with my enabling
'Mail Database' and/or 'Plain Mail' scanning . . . .

Anyone know where can I find more info on how to un-lock emails (so I can delete
'em!)? Looking through the Help has been quite unsuccessful . . . ;-/

No need to test it further if I can't delete the little buggers!

 

[Jeffrey A. Setaro]

Sorta on-topic:

Been testing a Kaspersky 30-day trial, here (Win2K; Mozilla 1.6), and suddenly
infected/suspected emails are getting locked: can't do anything with them
except look at the Subject: . . . I believe this has to do with my enabling
'Mail Database' and/or 'Plain Mail' scanning . . . .

Anyone know where can I find more info on how to un-lock emails (so I candelete
'em!)? Looking through the Help has been quite unsuccessful . . . ;-/

No need to test it further if I can't delete the little buggers!

Disable the on-access scanner, delete the e-mail, compact your mail
folders, then re-enable the on-access scanner.

HTH.

--
Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro <at> mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34

 

[ah]

[snip previous material]

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

[snip Kaspersky pop/smtp scan-info]

Sorta on-topic:

Been testing a Kaspersky 30-day trial, here (Win2K; Mozilla 1.6), and suddenly
infected/suspected emails are getting locked: can't do anything with them
except look at the Subject: . . . I believe this has to do with my enabling
'Mail Database' and/or 'Plain Mail' scanning . . . .

Anyone know where can I find more info on how to un-lock emails (so I can delete
'em!)? Looking through the Help has been quite unsuccessful . . . ;-/

No need to test it further if I can't delete the little buggers!

Disable the on-access scanner, delete the e-mail, compact your mail
folders, then re-enable the on-access scanner.
!


HTH.

Yes, it did. Thank you.