[ale] anti-virus and mozillaRe: [ale] anti-virus and mozilla

[cfowler]

Nope,  It will not scan that stuff in Mozilla.  It has hooks for Outllok only.
 But why not run Mozilla on Linux.  Then he'll have no reason to scan those
emails


On 12/31/1969, "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

>I have a friend who really wants to switch from Microsoft to Linux
>(YAY!!) and is actively in the process of doing so. He still has a win98
>box that is currently used to get email and other non-linux ready
>things. We have Mozilla for windows loaded on it and he really likes. He
>would like to tell Outbreak to go away but we have run into a conundrum.
>Will Norton Anti-virus scan incoming email on Mozilla mail? I sent an
>executable file that I renamed Klez.exe and Norton happily let it
>through Mozmail. Did it scan it and determine it was not Klez? Or did it
>ignore the Mozmail completely?
>
>Inquiring minds want to know. No good answers on Symantec's site yet.
>
>-- 
>James P. Kinney III          Changing the mobile computing world/
>CEO & Director of Engineering           one Linux user         /
>Local Net Solutions,LLC                   at a time.          /
>770-493-8244                    .___________________________./
>http://www.localnetsolutions.com
>
>GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
>Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 
>
>
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