Re: free virus protection

From: "David Craig" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| I don't know why they limit it to 10 per email. I would think that such a
| limit would be useful. If a customer is saving up that many for one
| submission, they aren't really helping since it takes time to get all of
| them together and by the time one company/person put them together others
| will have submitted them. There is the human element too that if someone at
| Symantec is going through a bunch of viral samples and the first five are
| already know quantities, then they may not check the next five as carefully
| being predisposed to assuming they are all known.
|
| I never had problems making submissions when I found something, but I did
| have the advantage of having an internal email address, so maybe the rules
| didn't apply. I haven't found anything new recently. I am glad that Road
| Runner and Comcast seem to have implemented fairly decent email filters, so
| my junk email is very minimal.
|

Sample of a Symantec PITA message. There was NOTHING wrong with the attachment I sent and
it had only ten files in it:

(This is an automated response. Please do not reply to this message.)

Thank you for your message. You are receiving this reply because our automation determined
that there was no attachment to your original message, or your message contained a zip file
with an unknown password, or the attachment was corrupted.

This mailbox is to be used only for submitting suspected threats to the Symantec Security
response. If you have a file that you believe is infected or malicious, and you would like
Symantec Security Response to analyze it, please see the following URL for submission instructions:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/submit.html
If you have a threat-related question, or require other technical assistance, please point
your Web browser to: http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/index.html


Thank you,
Symantec Security Response

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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