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External Since: Jul 04, 2003 Posts: 1562

Alan Pollock wrote:
> kurt wismer <kurtw.TakeThisOut@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>Lars-Erik ?sterud wrote:
>>>kurt wismer skrev:
>>>
>>>>the point is not that it inserts messages, the point is that the
>>>>messages it inserts are false... i think you'll find that most people
>>>
>>>But then that would be true for all other virus-scanners as well.
>>>Most I know of inserts a similar kind of message (even larger Smile

>
>>the only other one i know of that ever did that was avg...
>
>>there are most certainly anti-virus products that don't do it...
>
> The point concerns the word 'clean' though, correct? Size of message, or the
> fact that there is a message is not important.

the intellectual honesty of the message is my main concern... ideally it
would also abide by rfc1855 guidelines for signatures email and usenet
messages but i can live with a couple extra lines here and there (there
are worse bandwidth violations out there)

> Were Avast to merely state that
> an email's been scanned there would be nothing to complain about, especially
> since the default is set to 'no message.' Nex

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then left ya for the starvin' crows, hoverin' like hungry whores
one flew down plucked out yer eye, the other he had in his sights
ya snarled at him, said leave me be - i need the bugger so i can see"

External Since: Aug 23, 2005 Posts: 8

kurt wismer wrote:
> What's in a Name? wrote:
>
>> kurt wismer <kurtw.TakeThisOut@sympatico.ca> wrote in
>
> [snip]
>
>>> it would be better to leave the false claims out entirely... yours
>>> is shorter but still false...
>>
>>
>> How about this one:
>>
>> avast! antivirus (0531-4, 08/05/2005) This message is virus-free as
>> far as avast! can tell.
>
>
> that one is just fine...
>
OK, OK, I fixed the tag...

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