Computer History

[Paul Koning]

> On Sep 17, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>>> fix your links.  CC yourself and see if you can click on them.
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> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> Which links?  You mean the "virus-free" thing at the bottom?  That's just .signature spam.  I don't know why people put that in, especially since a declaration in a piece of mail that it's "virus-free" isn't worth the electrons it's written on.
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> When people install AVG anti-virus, it alters their signature to insert an ad for itself.  WITHOUT their authorization, or, usually, awareness.  THAT may not be as dangerous, but it's still malware.

Clearly that's a sufficient reason to consider that software to be malware and never use it for any purpose.  But in addition, such a message in the signature is clearly meaningless because it could just as easily be inserted there by a virus as by an anti-virus.

	paul