[H-GEN] Spam from the anti-virus companies

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Mon Feb 9 23:52:05 EST 2004


I've been getting pretty cross lately with the number of idiotic
warnings I've received from the bottom-feeders in the anti-virus
pond.

Far too many systems are setup so that this stupid software just
sends out bogus warnings about virus-laden email that they claim
to have protected their users against.  This is despite the fact
that almost all such mail comes with a clearly-forged sender who
certainly sent no such email.

The worst of these fools also kindly forwards the bloody virus
to the so-called sender, thus adding to the problem.

On top of that, all this software is clearly guilty of spamming,
as it all includes advertising for the AV product that was the
source of the email.

There's a nice rant about this here: http://tinyurl.com/2cqcg

Cheers, Greg




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