> On Sep 17, 2020, at 9:04 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
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
