I wish Norton AntiVirus 2009 would support secure POP3 via SSL/TLS.
Kindest regards,
Tobias
As of now, Norton products does not support POP3 via SSL. Because they are behind a secure connection and they use different port numbers. Probably a Symantec Employee may find time to comment on this.
Vineeth--
Hi Tobias,
SSL stands for Secured Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate. It includes a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Using SSL/TLS encryption makes your user name and password unreadable as it travels from your computer to the mail server. SSL has recently been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is based on SSL. It can be applied to several protocols (like SMTP, POP3, IMAP) to get the same security benefits that users get normally with data encryption over HTTPS. In other words, it is a "tunnelling" protocol useful to assure the privacy of data exchange.
Most anti-virus programs (including Symantec products) do not allow encrypted connections. Traditional anti-virus/firewall solutions are unable to scan encrypted traffic as they don't have the "private or secret key" to decrypt the information, and therefore can provide no control over what content is sent in and out of organisations' networks via SSL/TLS. But they may intervene to prevent encryption from being used on POP and SMTP connections.
Please post your suggestions regarding the improvement for SSL/TLS scanning in Antivirus on the following threads:
Suggestions for Norton 360 version 3.0
Suggestions for Norton Internet Security 2010
Symantec employees will look into your suggestions through this.
Wishing you a Very Happy New Year in Advance!
Yogesh