On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:47, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > but the stupid > programmers of antivirus software, which are clever enough to analyze > that a virus is forging the sender, but did not manage yet - for > several years - to spread program versions which take this clue.[1] > > Although the worm flood is bothering enough, it is at least easily > handled. All those automatic notifications, which have no common > characteristic most times, are what really cause me work. > [1] I.e. make their software not sending notifications on such worms, > no matter what preferences the user choses. And that's regardless > of what one thinks about the the value of such notifications to > begin with.
Perhaps the programmers are not stupid, it's their management who are doing it to spam on the back of the worm. I left a company of which I was head of R&D because of management like that. -- Dave Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
