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THE BAT! AND NORTON ANTIVIRUS

Norton Antivirus (NAV) doesn't support The Bat! explicitly. However, NAV 2001 can provide POP3 services and registers itself on your computer with the server name pop3.norton.antivirus. You can use any POP3 client (including The Bat!) to retrieve mail from this "virtual server".

You need to configure both Norton Antivirus and The Bat! before NAV can scan your incoming email.

Step 1 – Configure NAV to accept POP3 requests:

  1. Open NAV 2001, either from the Start menu or by double-clicking the System Tray icon.
  2. In the Options dialog box, expand Email Protection then select Advanced.
  3. Select Enable Manual Configuration.
  4. If you want NAV to indicate when it is processing email, select Display Tray Icon When Processing Email.
    This causes an animated icon to appear in the system tray whenever NAV processes email.
  5. If you are connecting via a router or dial-up connection that may time out while NAV processes large attachments, select Protect Against Timeouts When Scanning Email.

Step 2 – Configure NAV 2001 to take appropriate action

The "Ask me what to do" setting causes NAV to stop processing and to wait for your instructions whenever it detects a virus in incoming email. This prevents unattended download of all subsequent messages until you have provided the requested instructions. To select a more appropriate action:
  1. In the NAV Options window, select Email Protection.
  2. In the Action list, select the required action, for example, Quarantine the Attachment or Delete the Attachment.
  3. Close the NAV Options window.

Step 3 – Configure The Bat! to use NAV

In this step, you configure The Bat! to use the NAV virtual server (pop3.norton.antivirus) and change your username so that it directs NAV to your ISP's POP3 server. You should only need change the Mail Server and User settings.
  1. In The Bat!, open the Account Properties sheet.
  2. In the property tree, select Transport.
  3. In Mail Server, enter pop3.norton.antivirus
  4. In User, enter your user name, a slash, then the name of your ISP's POP3 server. For example, if your user name is fred, and your ISP's POP3 server is mail.myisp.net, into the User box, you should enter fred/mail.myisp.net
  5. Click OK.

 

You can also find this procedure in the NAV2001 help (start by looking for "email" in the index).

 

   
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