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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

David de Groot <david-humbug at viking.org.au> writes:

> 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.

>> 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).

Sounds to me like an excellent opportunity for some opt-in procmail
rules.  The PHB still gets their "you got saved from a virus!" email,
everyone with clue doesn't get any.

Hell, you could even turn the feature off entirely and just scour
Symantec's website and send the PHB his *very own* email at
semi-random intervals.

jason, who just got unsubbed from the lists due to an unfortunate
       confluence of events to do with MyDoom
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