full-disclosure - E-mail virus free tags (Was: SHUT THE F**K UP)

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From: thmaillists at yahoo.com (Troy)
Subject: E-mail virus free tags (Was: SHUT THE F**K UP)

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:46:12 -0000, "Andrew Aris" <andrew@....bigfishinternet.co.uk> wrote:

> This has been something I've wondered about for a while, its a good idea for
> e-mails to carry some kind of "passed" tag from AV systems only if it
> actually means something. Which as just a plain text, easily duplicatable
> signature it doesn't in-fact as recent Netsky variants are busy proving its
> worse than not having it. So why don't the AV vendors use for example PGP to
> sign mails? Surely this would give the process some meaning?

The main reason an Antivirus company would spend the resources on adding
code to append a message to outgoing mail is for marketing purposes. It
gets their product name out there.

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Troy