[access-uk] Re: eSET sMART sECURITY QUERY

  • From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:55:28 +0100


Marie,
This is a subject which is causing me some concernat present.  Eset say that 
Gmail (and a 
few others) send messages  in an encrypted form which means, even when the port 
is 
changed to 995, it is not scanned. This applies to most clients although I 
understand that in 
some way MS Outlook gets round the problem.  Eset insist however that the real 
time 
scanning of the messages once they have been downloaded would prevent anything 
malicious causing trouble, but I am a little nervous about this.  In fact, at 
present, if I have a 
message with attachment, I immediately delete it and go and get it from the web 
interface 
instead - Google claim to virus scan anything before it is downloaded to your 
computer.

Just to complicate things even further, a friend (not on this list), who 
recently installed Eset 
Smart Security claims to have detected very occasional messages lacking the Tag 
confirming that they have been scanned.  And he is not using Googlemail!  He is 
currently in 
correspondence with Eset but is still a little concerned.

Sorry not to be more re-assuring, but...

Douglas      

    
On 5 Jul 2008 at 11:29, Marie Baisez wrote:

> reviewing my mail I find your message about which I'd like more info
> please. Are you saying that gmail messages coming through outlook express
> are not checked by Nod32? If something in there has to be configured,
> would you mind giving me instructions please? Thank you in advance.
> Frightening to think I might be at risk! All the best, Marie -----
> Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Harrison"
> <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday,
> June 08, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: eSET sMART sECURITY QUERY
> 
> 
> > Thanks for this. Just noticed something though!  I have a @UKonline
> > e-mail address and the incoming messages are being tagged to the effect
> > that they have been checked by Eset Smart security.   Most of my
> > incoming mail is however to my @gmail.com address and these are the
> > messages not being checked.   If I remember correctly Gmail uses a
> > different port (995?) instead of the normal 110.   So it may not be
> > Pegasus mail to blame!  I suspect I need to make a change in the Eset
> > configuration so that both ports are checked.
> >
> > Douglas
> 

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Douglas Harrison

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