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Al

How do you temporarily disable NOD32? The help dosen't seem to tell you.
Have I missed it somewhere?
Al
 
Close it down
Also look at alternate settings in Amon
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Attaglo's answer might be a bit vague but so is your question. Do you
want to close the Control Center? If so, just open CC and click
"quit".

If you want to close Amon, go to "Resident modules and filters" in the
CC and pick Amon. Click on it and then press "stop". Pretty
straightforward...

As a sidenote, it might be a good idea to password protect the
unloading of Amon and quitting. That should give you incentive to RTFM
:0)

Cheers,

Pekka de G.
 
Pekka,
I want to download a new driver for my scanner. The download instructions
state I should temporarily disable any anti-virus program since it may
interfere with the software installation. There is no "Disable" in the help
index or anywhere else (that I saw) in NOD32. I recently had to reformat my
hard drive, and I'll be re-installing some programs, etc., that I lost. I
understand that most software installations recommend you disable the
anti-virus program (among others). Looking at it again, I guess I simply
reverse the check mark for "enabled" in Amon and Imon.
Al
 
Pekka,
I want to download a new driver for my scanner. The download instructions
state I should temporarily disable any anti-virus program since it may
interfere with the software installation.
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[snip]

In that case, closing Amon should be enough, as this closes down the
real time scanner from the memory. Just follow my advice regarding
Amon.

Cheers,

Pekka de G.
 
I want to download a new driver for my scanner. The download instructions
state I should temporarily disable any anti-virus program since it may
interfere with the software installation.
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I've been using NOD32 for about three years now, and I've never disabled it
to either download or install any applications - and I've installed many.

Your PC is at its most vulnerable when installing new software. Are you
quite sure it contains no nasties? Why would you want to remove your AV
protection at that time?

I would be somewhat inclined to distrust any new application which required
this for its installation.

Cheers,

Roy
 
Roy,

The following is just an FYI:

(quoted text below)
It's a good idea to disable av when installing, but not when
downloading. After all, you want to be sure the programs you are
downloading aren't viruses! To temporarily disable NAV, right-click on
the icon in the systemtray (far right-hand lower corner of the
desktop). You'll then be able to left-click on "Disable". Now you'll
see a red "x" over the icon. Install your program. Don't forget to
right-click on the NAV icon again and choose "Enable".

Malke
 
Roy,

The following is just an FYI:

(quoted text below)
It's a good idea to disable av when installing, but not when
downloading. After all, you want to be sure the programs you are
downloading aren't viruses! To temporarily disable NAV, right-click on
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Your quotation appears to refer to NAV.

The OP asked about NOD32, and my reply referred to that, and reflected my
experience with that. I've seen others report similarly, in this newsgroup
too I think, but I've not searched the archives.

If it really necessary to disable NAV before attempting to install other
software, this just seems to indicate to me that NOD32 is superior to NAV
in this respect, and I would claim many others too. But there's no need to
go down that path again!

Cheers,

Roy
 
Roy,

Answers provided in line.

--
Sir_George


Roy said:
Your quotation appears to refer to NAV.
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Perhaps it wasn't all that clear that "It's a good idea to disable av when
installing, but not when downloading." was intended to be separate from the
following remark regarding NAV.
The OP asked about NOD32, and my reply referred to that, and reflected my
experience with that. I've seen others report similarly, in this newsgroup
too I think, but I've not searched the archives.
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There are different opinions on the subject, but as a pratical matter,
interactive AV protection is unnecessary if you have scaned the program for
virurses prior to running the install rotuine.

Think about this example; I go to install MS SP-1 for Windows XP. The
program is going to alter and install several OS files with the newest ones
available. If an AV program is running during this process, and is doing
it's job, it will detect these changes as hostile. The following line is
quoted directly from MicroSoft Corp;
"Stop any real-time virus checkers before you install SP1 because they might
interfere with your installation. (Be sure to restart the virus checkers
after you install SP1.)"

You can verify the above by visiting the following site;

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp1/readmesp.mspx

You will find the above quoted from; 2.1 Before You Install Service Pack 1,
Step #4

If it really necessary to disable NAV before attempting to install other
software, this just seems to indicate to me that NOD32 is superior to NAV
in this respect, and I would claim many others too. But there's no need to
go down that path again!
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Again, this advice is not limited to Norton.

HTH clear things up.
 
There are different opinions on the subject, but as a pratical matter,
interactive AV protection is unnecessary if you have scaned the program for
virurses prior to running the install rotuine.
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One of those opinions: presuming you mean on-access scanning, it would only
be unnecessary if you discount the utility of heuristic analysis. If you do,
fair enough.

Shane
 
Shane,

Answered in line.

--
Sir_George


Shane said:
One of those opinions: presuming you mean on-access scanning, it would only
be unnecessary if you discount the utility of heuristic analysis. If you do,
fair enough.
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The problem is, heuristic analysis makes assumptions, and making assumptions
about the malicious purpose of code is hardly accurate, so what you usually
see from heuristic analysis is lots of false positives, and you can
certainly assume there's lots of false negatives too... its results are
inconclusive and extremely unreliable, therefore, not fully usable in the
real world.
Probably, in the future, as technology advances, heuristic analysis will be
a useful tool, not only in antivirus technology, but in IDS (intrusion
Detection Systems) and several other security related applications as well.
 
The problem is, heuristic analysis makes assumptions, and making
assumptions
about the malicious purpose of code is hardly accurate, so what you usually
see from heuristic analysis is lots of false positives, and you can
certainly assume there's lots of false negatives too... its results are
inconclusive and extremely unreliable, therefore, not fully usable in the
real world.
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I don't see any false positives.

Shane
 
NOD32 v2.000.9 always prompt me to set 'default email client'
every time.

I don't have any outlook ;-)
 
Use MAPI interface - Enables access to MS Outlook® e-mail files using
the MAPI interface
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What is MAPI?

MAPI is an acronym for Messaging Application Programming Interface. It
is a standardized set of C functions placed into a code library known
as a Dynamic Link Library (DLL). The functions were originally
designed by Microsoft, but they have received support of many third
party vendors.

Having a standard library of messaging functions allows Windows
application developers to take advantage of the Windows messaging
subsystem, supported by default with Microsoft Mail or Microsoft
Exchange. By writing to the generic MAPI interface, any Windows
application can become "mail-enabled". Since MAPI standardizes the way
messages are handled by mail-enabled applications, each such
application does not have to include vendor-specific code for each
target messaging system.


IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of
accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on
a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client"
email program to access remote message stores as if they were local.
For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a
desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook
computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or
files back and forth between these computers.
 
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