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by dawgit

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I just got this from the wonderfull folks at "Symantec": "Trojan.Peacomm".!. oh-my :0
It goes on to say what to watch out for:
? A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!
? U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel
? British Muslims Genocide
? Naked teens attack home director.
? 230 dead as storm batters Europe.
? Re: Your text
? Radical Muslim drinking enemies's blood.
? Chinese missile shot down Russian satellite
? Chinese missile shot down Russian aircraft
? Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft
? Chinese missile shot down USA satellite
? Russian missile shot down USA aircraft
? Russian missile shot down USA satellite
? Russian missile shot down Chinese aircraft
? Russian missile shot down Chinese satellite
? Saddam Hussein safe and sound!
? Saddam Hussein alive!
? Venezuelan leader: "Let's the War beginning".
? Fidel Castro dead.
Geeez, it all sounded like GOOD news to me too.
I'm probably sure everyone has been warned of this, but I seem like a nice thing to share it anyway.
Info courtisy of those nice folks at "Symantec" who sometime list M$ as a trojan, and home to the favous "Norton" AV. (ok I stole it.) ;) -d

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by deepsand

Just for that, I'm not renewing any of their product subscriptions for my clients when they expire.

That'll teach them.

Now, tell me more about "Naked teens attack home director."

by dawgit

I don't know why I got that, maybe because I'm in Germany. (e-mail msg was in German.) Things run a little different here. It was a legit e-mail notice from "Club Symantec", I get them peroiditicly. (I don't think is because I'm special) BTW, they say it's a 'trojan' that was found on 17 Jan, but on 22 Jan it had been Up-graded in severity. (curious users no doubt) -d

by deepsand

Apparently the e-mails that you're getting are [b]not[/b] automatically sent to all registered customers.

Did you specifically enroll for this? If so, how?

by dawgit

Geeze, I know I've been getting those for a long time. I can't really tell you what it was I did to get them. When you buy a product from Symantec, such as 'Nortons' you have this option. I can say this they are not usually quite so helpfull. In fact most are only advertisements for the 'Latest, Greatest' or what-ever is 'New' product wise from the Symantec Company. If you want to go through that to get the Latest Warnings than here's some info that might help. (In these times it is no worse than the rest for that mater. In fact, better than most. And at the most only one e-mail a month. So, no, it certainly is NOT a spam load.) Mine of course is in German, since that's where my butt is at this time. But Maybe the US site might be more helpfull. see: [ http://www.symantec.com/index.jsp ] or, some info from my data: the e-mails come to me from: [ clubsymantec@v1.clubSymantec.com ], with a reply to address of: [ reply_ClubSymantec.DE@v1.clubSymantec.com ]. more info included in the e-mails: "Stellen Sie sicher, dass unsere E-Mails in Ihrem Posteingang und nicht im Spam-Ordner landen. F?gen Sie einfach [ clubsymantec@v1.clubSymantec.com ] zu Ihrem E-Mail-Adressbuchoder zur Liste der vertrauensw?rdigen Absender hinzu." Which says in a 'nut shell' (no offence to Mr.O'Reiley) Put this e-mail address in your address book so your e-mail program don't bounce it out as 'Spam'. Also some more info:
"Sie haben den Newsletter unter folgender Adresse abonniert: dawgit@lalaland.de. Wenn Sie den ClubSymantec-Newsletter nicht mehr erhalten m?chten, klicken Sie bitte hier. (that of course won't hyper link on here, but you get the point, it's the opt-out clause)
Wenn Sie Ihr Profil bearbeiten m?chten, klicken Sie bitte hier. (again the hyper-link thing, if you want to change you account data)
Alle aufgef?hrten Angebote sind Angebote des Symantec Stores. Die genannten Preise verstehen sich exklusive Versandkosten, eventueller Z?lle oder bei einem Software-Download anfallenden Internetzugangs-Geb?hren. Zum Kauf unserer Produkte werden Sie zu den jeweiligen Webseiten unseres Vertriebspartners Digital River, Inc./USA weitergeleitet. Es gelten die jeweiligen regionalen Handelsgesetze sowie die Bedingungen und Bestimmungen unseres Partnerunternehmens. (I have not been spamed from them) Symantec, das Symantec-Logo, die Norton-Produkt-Logos und der Symantec Security Check sind in den USA eingetragene Marken der Symantec Corporation. Andere Marken- und Produktnamen sind Marken der jeweiligen Rechtsinhaber und werden hiermit anerkannt. Copyright ? 2006 Symantec Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
Symantec Corporation, 20330 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014"
(again the standard "Don't Steal from us" line)
I did find this interesting and you might be interested as well:
for securiy alerts feed for your web site you can use the info from this web page. [ http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/cgi-bin/syndicate.cgi ] I belive this a 'free' service, that one can add to his/her web-site. hummmm. Does this help? -d

by deepsand

ClubSymantec is relatively new; the domain clubsymantec.com was 1st registered in 2003, and is wholly separate from the symantec.com site.

There is a library of articles at ClubSymantec's site, but no sign of any subscription services.

While I and my clients do receive e-mails from Symantec, as a result of product purchases, I have yet to see one that was not advertising.

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