antivirus: NOD32

NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC. There are two version of NOD32 (v1.xx) and the newer v2.xx generation. The setup instructions for the v1.xx series are shown first, as it's more complicated to setup.

Let's begin...

Setup for V1.xx: Step One

You first need to configure your email program, so that all emails are received through the SpamPal POP3/IMAP4 Proxy, instead of directly through to your ISP's POP3 Server.

See here for specific setup details for your email program.

For example:

setup your POP3 Server name to be: 127.0.0.1
setup your Incoming Mail Server to be: steveb@pop3.webserver.net

Repeat the above setup for all your other Accounts, changing the login and server names

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Setup for V1.xx: Step Two

To setup SpamPal, go to Options and then look at the Connections pane (see screen below).

Now select the POP3 (any servername) option and click Properties

Now change the Local Port Number to port 1101 (see screen below)

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Setup for V1.xx: Step Three

Now go the the NOD32 for POP3 program and set it up, as follows:

Add an pop3 account to Listen on port 110, Parent Server 127.0.0.1 (with a port of 1101) (see screen below)

If this was done correctly, you should now see:

You can now load up your email program and check that everything works.

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Setup for V2.xx

Due to changes in how the email scanner works, the 2.xx versions, doesn't need quite as much configuration, as it transparently scans on port 110. However, this results in two problems:

a. the email now has two "This message was checked by NOD32 Antivirus System" tags added to the email, since it is being checked once when SpamPal accesses it and again when the email program does.

b. email retrieval is significantly slower because each message is being scanned for virii twice.

The easy solution to the problem it to let NOD32 continue to scan port 110 and change SpamPal's POP3 Local port (on the Port Properties pane) to something like port 1101 and then telling your email program to use 1101 as well.

(The Port Properties pane is accesed by right-clicking on SpamPal's umbrella tray icon, then click on Options. Now click on the Connections option and select port 110 POP3. Finally click on Properties.)

Now the mail is being scanned for virii when SpamPal checks it and therefore messages are being retreived much more quickly.

If you need to change the port that IMON scans on. Go to the NOD32 Control Center and select IMON from the Resident modules and filters menu:

Now, click on Setup and then change the default 110 port, to the port number you need:

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