Anyone know anything about computers?

[fitzm]

Norton 2000-Eudora 4.3 specifically. I had no problems with these two programs before I got nailed with the love letter virus . After I uninstalled a bunch of stuff and cleaned 'puter with a Norton "fix" off their site, which still didn't work and I eventually had to do an fdisk anyway, my "mail server" and "log-in name" strings in the options menu were altered after I re-installed Norton System Works 2000. If I un-install/re-install Norton(about 6 times so far) it still alters original settings of Eudora and I have to manually put correct strings back in. Corrected strings stay put until I restart or shutdown 'puter and then Norton defaults back to what it thinks should be there. Whatever Norton is doing it sticks in Eudora unless I un-install/re-install eudora. When both programs are clean from my system and I do a fresh install of Eudora everything is fine, no string changes re-boot after re-boot so I know it's gotta be Norton. The only thing I can't figure out is not only why the two don't like eachother now but why they only started this feud after love letter virus. Both worked fine for months together.

Another thing is that after I fdisked and during the new windows(98SE) install I got a message half-way through, when windows wants to re-boot then continue with install, that windows was already on my computer and to go back to the dos screen press another option to basically install over existing system(I can't remember exactly what the prompts were) but it was something to that effect. Did the fdisk not wipe windows clean like it should or what? The fdisk took about 15 minutes and did just as it looked in the pictures 🙂 ,per fdisk instructions I downloaded off the web, so I'm lost. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[AC]

Norton AntiVirus modifies those strings to run your email through the scanner during download. You can disable it, but I don't see why, since you got hit once already with an email virus.

Type:
fdisk /mbr
at the command prompt to clear the master boot record. Then create a partition with fdisk, and format your drive.

[Edit]
Next time, if you want quick answers, make your title descriptive. Where do you think you were posting? This is a computer tech message board. Problem with Norton SystemWorks and Eudora or something would be much better.

 

[fitzm]

<< Norton AntiVirus modifies those strings to run your email through the scanner during download >>


Norton never modified those strings prior to the virus. I had email protection enabled for several months with eudora and norton and Nortonnever altered thoose strings once.



<< You can disable it, but I don't see why, since you got hit once already with an email virus. >>


I don't want to disable it I want it to run without changing my ability to access my email. For example: This is the string used in my incoming mail server &quot;saluki-mail.siu.edu&quot; Norton changed it to *******(my user name)[/b]/[/b]saluki-mail.siu.edu [/b]127.0.0[/b]. It should read ******[/b]@[/b]saluki-mail.siu.edu.(no #'s at the end) If Norton alters this string I don't get mail. So for Norton to alter this would make no sense because my Universities server won't recognize the new string. It also changes my log-in name and return address which I know it definitely is not supposed to do. So what's up?

Oh and by the way I wasn't getting any replies so I changed it. As a matter of fact I had that exact title you said and received no replies for at long time before I changed it to the more cynical one. It worked.

 

[AC]

NAV needs to modify those strings inorder to enable email protection. if they weren't modified before, your email was not protected.

the way NAV seems to work is that it has your email program use 127.0.0.1 (general loopback ip address) to notify NAV that it wants to get mail. NAV then uses the username field of your email program (with actual server and login name) to get the mail from the server and scan it before sending it to the email program through 127.0.0.1. this way, NAV doesn't need to alter your email program to get itself to work

however, different email programs have different fields for these strings, and it seems that NAV has gotten confused which strings to use

NAV has an option to let you manually configure your email program. Check your manual for details on how to do that.

basically the server field is 127.0.0.1 and user field is username/server

however, if eudora doesn't have separate fields, then u need to verify those with the ones in the manual or the help files

let me know how this goes. i have the manual for NAV2001, but it should be similar

 

[fitzm]

Unfortunately, I got this Norton program free with that World Book Encyclpedia deal from IBM this summer on the HotDeals forum No manual. But, I'll try the help files you mentioned. Thanks for all your help.