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From: rms at computerbytesman.com (Richard M. Smith) Subject: Symantec wants to criminalize security info sharing My understanding is that most of the spammers are selling pirated versions of Norton. Symantec has every incentive to shut these spammers down. Richard -----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Ediger Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 5:52 PM To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Symantec wants to criminalize security info sharing On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > Has anyone called a boycott of Symantec lately? No, but we should, for two specific reasons: 1. They support spammers. How many years have you been getting the spams for "Really Cheap Norton Systemworks" packages? And how many complaints have you made to spamwatch@...antec.com? And how much in the way of results have you seen? I think I've gotten regularly scheduled spams from at least 3 spam operations over the last 3 years, all advertising cheap Systemworks. Clearly, Symantec is funding this spamming. And don't tell me that they won a suit against a spammer - why did I get two copies of the spam today alone? 2. They're an anti-virus firm, but the best they can offer is "update your virus signature files regularly", even though that's about as effective as shouting "U SUKK!!!!" at the viruses, based on how many copies of Sobig.f and Swen I've gotten. At least they could admit that trying to protect Windows/MSFT products is pretty hopeless, and encourage people to switch to more functional, yet free products like Pine, or mailx or whatever Mac OS X uses to read email. None of them have ever had a macro virus, despite many, many buffer overflows and other disgusting security problems. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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