full-disclosure - Virus Notification Hell (VNH)

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From: geoincidents at getinfo.org (Geo.)
Subject: Virus Notification Hell (VNH)

This has really gotten out of hand. The "symantec has found a virus"
notifications are worse than the damn virus. So with that in mind may I
suggest the following:

Since the AV folks know which virus spoof the FROM address, how about
disabling these stupid notifications for those particular virus? Your
software is faulty when its sending out alerts to completely innocent users
scaring them into thinking they have a virus.

Come on guys, I'm tired of explaining to the average user that they don't
have a virus and that it was just some stupid braindead function of Symantec
Anti virus software that is alerting the wrong person.

SYMANTEC FIX IT!!

Note to everyone else, if symantec doesn't fix it, say by the time the next
spoofing email virus strikes, perhaps we should start bouncing those
notifications to Symantec mail servers in an attempt to wake them up?

Geo.