BitDefender Outgoing email scanning

Just wondering:

My ISP uses smtp port 587. BD AV 11 scans outgoing emails?

I'm using Outlook 2003.

Thanks.

Mike

 

yes, it does.

 

In Others AV you can set different pop3/smtp ports for emails.

In BD it's not possible.
Does it scan all ports for pop3/smtp traffic?

 

Yes BitDefender does scan outgoing and incoming mail. You can check if it scans the mails if you communicate thru a non-standard port.

 

BD scans only standard ports. It is not possible to scan non-standard ports like 587 (used by my ISP). So BD is inefective. But as normally BD has a very good detection rate (very good shield) is very difficult to send out infected email.

 

how do you know it doesnt scan all ports?

eg. avg's email scanner is not port-based, it just scans whatever.

 

In case of outgoing emails a pop-up alert that BD is scanning an outgoing email.
With this ISP (port 587) this do not happen.

Also I asked for BD support team and they confirm that BD scans ONLY standard ports. (587 is non-standard).

Best Regards.
Mike

 

Why do you need a separate scanner for outgoing mail? If you have a virus on your system, it will be detected by the realtime scanner that scans every file you open on a filesystem-level (unless you have disabled this scanner of course, but this would be a bad idea for most users)

I mean, the virus definitions are the same, so you will not find more viruses by having an additional smtp scanner. It's just waste of resources IMHO

 

E-mail scanning is manly useful if you have the habit of forwarding e-mails without opening them or checking the attachment.

I usually check e-mail before sending them out, I do not use the e-mail scannning feature. It is enough to have html viewer disabled, direct access to potentially dangerous extensions are already blocked by default by common e-mail clients (e.g. outlook 2003/2007)

It was discussed here before... EDIT: Here: Scanning email necessary?

Cheers,
Fax