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

[David de Groot]

On 10/02/2004, at 2:52 PM, Greg Black wrote:
> 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

There's been a big thread on this on BugTraq.  Unfortunately the pointy 
haired bosses seem to like this "feature" of anti-virus mail scanners 
and thus insist that it is used (despite it being a complete waste of 
resources).

bleh.

Dave
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