28 Nov
2001
28 Nov
'01
5:06 a.m.
Well, I'm running Norton Corporate Edition, with Outlook 2000, and it scans
my e-mail as it comes in, before I even read the message! Works out nice :-)
--- David A Woyciesjes
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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige@earthlink.net]
! Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:25 AM
! To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
! Subject: Re: S. Ring has badtrans virus
!
!
! > It was sent to me 'personally', ie not as a classiccmp
! post. Since it
! >was an unsolicited attachment from an unacknowledged source,
! it filed it
! >in /dev/nul.
!
! I got it as well but followed the same logic you did. I also
! received the virus once over the weekend as well, but it wasn't from
! a list subscriber. I don't use Outlook on my Mac's and don't have
! autopreview turned on when I'm using it under NT.
!
! Jeff
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28 Nov
28 Nov
5:48 a.m.
I am assuming NCE include Norton Anti-Virus.. On the Norton Utilities
Systemworks AV is installed to automatically scan your email for virii...
But the way it does it is *very* questionable.. The email is routed to one
of their servers before being routed to you inbox.
I only happened to find this out *after* everything was installed because I
also use Zone Alarm. I then found out that the install had modified Outlook.
Nowhere in the install was I told that this was happening!!!
Bryan
Well, I'm running Norton Corporate Edition, with Outlook 2000, and it scans
my e-mail as it comes in, before I even read the message! Works out nice :-)
6:38 a.m.
Bryan,
Are you sure it is routed to *their* servers?
We use Norton AV 2000 and it uses a local "proxy" that filters incoming
mail through 127.0.0.1 (localhost) before the mail application can do harm
with it.
During install, Norton AV (at least our version) modifies the mail reader
so that it uses localhost as the mail server, and this Norton mail proxy
then actually gets the mail and passes it to the mail reader.
This mail does not pass through or utilize any Norton servers, just a local
proxy installed on your computer.
- Matt
At 11:48 AM 11/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I am assuming NCE include Norton Anti-Virus.. On the
Norton Utilities
Systemworks AV is installed to automatically scan your email for virii...
But the way it does it is *very* questionable.. The email is routed to one
of their servers before being routed to you inbox.
I only happened to find this out *after* everything was installed because I
also use Zone Alarm. I then found out that the install had modified Outlook.
Nowhere in the install was I told that this was happening!!!
Bryan
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Well, I'm running Norton Corporate Edition, with Outlook 2000, and it scans
my e-mail as it comes in, before I even read the message! Works out
nice :-)
6:08 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
Well, I'm running Norton Corporate Edition, with
Outlook 2000, and it
scans my e-mail as it comes in, before I even read the message! Works
out nice :-)
Was it prescient enough to detect Badtrans.b? If Badtrans.b is a new
virus, it almost sounds fishy that NAV *already* knew how to discover it.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
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