Date sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:39:48 +0000 (UTC) From: security curmudgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> One other product appeared in December of 1990 of which I had heard > rumors. Its release foreshadowed a new direction the antivirus industry > would take in 1991. The product was Norton AntiVirus. I am Peter of Nort. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated. Over the next year or two I believe Symantec ate about 18 companies and Central Point ate a dozen. Then (sometime in 92 or 3?) Symantec ate CP. Eventually I figured that Symantec had absorbed roughly 45 other AV products--without noticeable improvement in their AV tech. (The fact that Peter, almost up to the day Symantec renamed their recently purchased PC AV proggie "Norton AV," had been going around saying that computer viruses were an urban legend, was hilarious.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no *printed* instructions, but I found a CD-ROM called `How to Set Up Your Computer.' - Dan Piraro http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
