Antivirus on XP

[goatcheese]

I remember a couple years back seeing an Antivirus product that would scan EXISTING messages within your email client for viruses/trojans. Not just new messages as they were downloaded, but EXISTING messages already download from days/months earlier. It probably only worked with a couple popular email clients.

Does anyone know which Antivirus product this was? I think it may have been McAfee, but I'm not sure.

If you are familiar with it, did it perform this function while running within the email client, or did it do this at the same time it performed a manual drive scan?

 

[randy66]

McAfee has a Free scan test available , it will scan all files for viruses . ck the web site , go to downloads , and look for free services.
sorry I cant provide the link

 

[goatcheese]

Thanks Randy. But that's not what I'm looking for. One of the A/V programs (don't recall which, and that's what I'm trying to find out) is able to scan all messages currently stored within your email client (and not just new ones... existing ones too).

 

[nja469]

Maybe TrendMicro.com, their virus suite scans email, webmail and attachments included those in compressed formats.

 

[ciuly]

KAV (former known as AVP) does this. Their adress is <A HREF="http://www.avp.ch" target="_new">http://www.avp.ch</A>.I use it and it works fine, with the option of scaning the mail database and monitor the incoming mail.
One problem though:I had to revert to the older version (3.5) from 4.0 because it eats alot of resources(the new version). It scans every file that is accesed and it can be quite anoying at some point (one time I forgot the monitor active when defraging and it took like 3 hours for a 5GB partition)

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[goatcheese]

Thanks. I just checked it out. Hard to tell from their description if they support WinXP. They mention every O/S except WinXP.

BTW, when they scan existing emails (not new ones), do they do it from within the email client, or from outside.

Also, does anyone know if McAfee definitely does or does not have this feature?

I looked at Norton AntiVirus on a friends PC, and it definitely does not have this feature (at least in the 2002 version).

 

[ciuly]

I have it on XP so I guess they suport XP . Serious, there is no problem with XP. And the scan is made from outside. The nice thing about version 4.0 is that it also scans every web page u access and clears all the trojans u might encounter. (or at least all that are detected!).
I am using AVP (currently known as KAV) for more than 6 years now and I never got a virus that could make any damage before being deleted.

Romania is a beautiful country, unfortunately it's inhabited.