18 Sep
2020
18 Sep
'20
6:36 a.m.
On Sep 17, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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
> fix your links. CC yourself and see if you
can click on them.
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.
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.