🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 07 May 2000 16:29:40 +0100 (BST),
4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk (Michael Salem) wrote:

>I would like to see much more cautious email programs. In particular, 
>there need to be precautions about sneding email to entries in your 
>address book.

I don't really like recommending Symantec, but....

Norton Internet Security 2000 examines the email before it's delivered
to the email client. OK - it *probably* wouldn't have caught the Love
worm, but it will catch most macro viruses. Caveat - you need to pick
up mail via POP3 for it to work in this way.

I almost hate myself for saying this, but it's actually a damn good
package - you get NAV2000, and a modified version of AtGuard (better
IMHO as it blocks fragmented IP headers - IIRC build 11 didn't do
this), parental controls (I don't use them, but I'm sure others do).
And it doesn't crash/hang at sites I had problems with when using
build 11. It also requires a *lot* less knowledge to set up rules - eg
it automatically set up Navigator for all the common services (http,
https, etc). I actually think it's more secure than build 11 (the way
I had it set) as BlackICE (which sits "behind" it) doesn't see as many
probes/fragmented IP headers/whatever as it did with build 11.

It apparently doesn't work for NT, but an examination of the CD shows
a directory that *appears* to have the "Atguard" files required for
NT, so with a little perseverence....?

You could buy it for 49.99, or you could just buy the "upgrade"
version for 29.99. It claims it requires NAV v4.0 (or above) or
Systemworks to install, but that (IME) is bollocks. I do have NAV v5,
but I installed NIS2000 on a machine that had never seen NAV & it
worked fine. YMMV, but IMHO this is a damn good buy at 30 quid given
that you get a half-decent firewall and AV s/w.

God this almost sounds like an advert for Symantec ;-)
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John Naismith
john@naismith.demon.co.uk