RE: Nortan Antivirus 2000 Poproxy.exe problem

[Tom Laermans <tom.laermans () powersource cx>]

Hi,

At 19:38 24/05/2001, you wrote:
> >Poproxy.exe is the email virus scanner included in Nortan Antivirus 2000...
> >While messing around with this i crashed the server by sending it
> >too many characters (269 or more).

This, I cannot confirm.


> Hi! I am having difficulty confirming this for two reasons. Perhaps I am
> doing something wrong. I am running Norton Antivirus 2000 with poproxy.exe
> on MS Outlook 2000.

You're probably running liveupdate because...

> poproxy.exe SEEMS to only bind to localhost (127.0.0.1) instead of my IP on
> the network (192.168.0.24). If I try to telnet to port 110 from another
> Windows machine, it cannot connect. If I try to telnet to 127.0.0.1 from my

... this used to be the case that it was bound to all interfaces. It was 
discovered as a bug (after a long time of bickering with Symantec) and they 
fixed it in a patch, which could be applied if you used their LiveUpdate 
feature.

An unpatched version will have the problem.

-Tom

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