On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 07:19 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Well fwiw, installing the free AVG prints such messages to both incomming > and outgoing scanned messages/files and cannot be blocked by the user other > than to remove or buy the professional AVG product. I agree that all computer > users should have Anti-S/V programs installed and to secure their systems, as > I do, but don't take my word for it, scan and scan again to your heart's content! The problem is that such an advertisement proves nothing about the message contents, it's completely unverifiable. And, worse, it encourages people to believe such messages in their incoming mail. It's really a bad thing to encourage complacency. > I have yet to find a free product such as AVG from the OpenSource community that > is fully-loaded and fully-automatic such as professional AV/S products provide > and hence the reason for my continued use of AVG. Use it, fine, encourage other people to scan for viruses, fine. But just don't include *its* message that encourages bad things (complacency). Though, for what it's worth, I don't think very highly of AVG. Too often I've seen it warn a person that their computer has become infected, while it did nothing to prevent it becoming infected, and would do nothing to disinfect it. I laughed my head off at the friend who struck that. He had to reformat to get rid of the virus, nothing would actually do it that he tried. Trust me, the file I've attached to this e-mail is safe to run, it will not cause any damage to your computer. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
