TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: virus_info
to: RICHARD ST. JOHN
from: KENNETH J. RENAUD
date: 1997-01-22 07:04:00
subject: Re: Internet downloads

 -=> Quoting Richard St. John to Graeme Minto <=-
 -=> My computer told me that Graeme Minto said to All
 
 GM> Does anybody know if it is possible to run anti-virus protection
 GM> while actually downloading from the WWW, FTP,Newsgroups and email?
 RSJ> 
 RSJ> The only way to do it, that I am aware of, is having a TSR, but the
 RSJ> data can still be infected. All downloads from any source should be
 RSJ> scanned before usage.
 RSJ> 
 RSJ> My company uses hardware based scanning which is the closest we have
 RSJ> seen to live download anti-virus scanning because it scans all writes
 RSJ> and reads from the disk drives.
 RSJ> 
 Is Hardware based scanning done through the Bios? I was reading up on
 updating my Bios & that is what it seems it was suggesting?
... Taglines are irrelevant. You will be assimilated into the Blue Wave.
--- GEcho 1.20/Pro
---------------
* Origin: Slings & Arrows BBS St. Louis, Mo. (1:100/205.0)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.