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On Sunday 01 September 2002 5:45 pm, Joe Pluta wrote:
> Has anyone received the following mass mailing (attached in entirety
> below)? This all but convinces me that the security companies, and
> Symantec in particular, are simply fearmongers.  This mail does nobody
> any good except Synmantec.
>
> Of course, if you want to get REAL conspiracy theorist, you could I
> suppose say that perhaps it came from a competitor, looking to
> discredit Symantec. Or perhaps just someone really bored.
>
> But in any event, this email really ticks me off.  Can anyone manage to
> track it to its source?  If so, I'd love to send the sender a few
> choice e-words.
>
> Joe

Hi Joe

I've had maybe half a dozen copies of this in the last week, but mostly
from email addresses in Paraguay for some reason - no mention of any AV
firms, just a note to say turn off AV protection during the install!
Quite cleverly worded and I'm sure it will fool some people.

Even though we have Symantec's Enterprise AV solution at work, the odd
virus still gets through (usually users with laptops or the occasional
very new Word macro virus not yet detected). Mind you, I'm sure it would
be much worse if we used Outlook/Outlook Express instead of Notes. It
just seems to be yet another 'hidden' cost of using MS software, that an
AV package is pretty much obligatory.

Regards, Martin (running Linux so avoiding all the virus hassle anyway)
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