-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, November 02, 2002, at 2:57:51 PM PDT, Tom Sadler wrote:
> I'm currently using NOD32 as my AV scanner, and I'd like to put a > tagline in all outgoing mail to the effect that the mail has been > scanned by NOD32, version such and such. This is what AVG does, and personally, I don't think it's a very useful "feature". I see it mainly as a way for AVG to get some free advertising space in email being sent out. Seeing a tag claiming that someone else's AV has scanned the email I receive means nothing to me. I depend only on my own careful practices and the AV/AT of my own choosing (I happen to use NOD32 as well). Furthermore...such tags can be easily spoofed, so anyone feeling more secure because they see something like that may well be feeling a false sense of security. What if a virus was written to append each email it sends out with a "scanned by..." tag? The only way for anyone to feel secure is to first trust *their own* careful practices/good judgement, software choices and configurations, and finally the AV/AT software they run and maintain themselves. Melissa - -- PGP public keys: mailto:pgp_keys@;gmx.co.uk?subject=0xFB04F2E9&Body=Please%20send%20keys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAj3EtOYACgkQjVbXUvsE8ulloQCgpDN4+6IPMjW2d0zvifR9aWtq Z3IAoLAJiJJy7eyKY9+PEghH2Tr37sMb =x+hI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
