B9 and POP3 w/Anti-Virus

dburgett · Guest

Hello,
I have downloaded the Benign program and I can't seem to get it to work correctly. When my outlook express logs in to download my emails, it says:

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'my.isp.net', Server: 'localhost.b9', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

I also use PC-cillan Anti-Virus program which there is a special way that is setup to allow my virus program to be able to scan emails for virus'. It alters the POP3 incoming mail to be routed throught "localhost". I'm somewhat certain this is where the problem is. I understand B9 changes the Incoming Mail POP3 with a .b9 suffix, is there something more I must do to get both to work? I do not want to stop using the Antivirus program, I prefer to use both PC-cillan and B9 concurrently. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Rolling Eyes

C320 · Cadet Joined: Mar 30, 2002 Posts: 1

I would be glad to hear any responses to this question myself. I am running NOD32 POPscanand have no idea if anything is going through this program or not?

Can one run this program in conjunction with MW?

Thanks
C320

mole · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:48 am Post subject:

It works fine with Norton Internet Security 2003. And it's double protection since all emails are scanned for viruses by NIS using the very latest signatures. What I like about Benign is that it removes web bugs, something that no other software can do to my current knowledge.

spy1 · Guest

Benign is working fine here with the latest NOD32 Beta.

The only funny thing it does is that it causes NOD to sign the emails twice (once for the emails and once for the Benign sig). Pete

spy1 · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:53 am Post subject:

It's also neither recommended nor neccessary to run MW through Benign - once you preview all your email through MW and then "Process" it, Benign takes over on what's left through your mail program. Pete

mole · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 12:02 pm Post subject:

That's the ultimate spam filtering security, spy. I send and receive my Outlook in order to send an email since it is bad security to make this automatic, and I download new spam in the process Sad

Also, you never know those newsletters that you trusted....

dburgett · Guest

Well you won't believe this but B9 techsupport responded to my email. I thought others might be interested in what they said in regard to my problem.

Unfortunately B9 is not working well with these situations. I do feel you could safely change this however, though your AV program will not be scanning e-mails for viruses, it still has the capacity to prevent the virus from triggering should you download the virus, and if B9 renamed the file then a warning will also appear before the virus can be activated.

The e-mail scanning of an AV program is just extra protection, AV programs are designed more to intercept the virus upon triggering on your PC.

I disabled the email virus scan in my PC-cillan and then shutdown the POP3scan process thru Windows Task Manager, and re-imported the accounts through B9, and everything seems to work correctly.

Hopefully, this will be of use to someone.

Now I just wish B9 would allow other Ports to be configured if 110 is not available.

David

tosbsas · Trooper Joined: Feb 27, 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Argentina

hamster · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: B9 and POP3 w/Anti-Virus


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