RE: Spam from Symantec

[JohnNicholson () aol com]

I get a lot of this, but from the character of the subject lines, I've assumed that it isn't actually generated by 
Symantec (e.g., lots of exclamation points, poor grmmar, poor spacing, etc.).

I haven't bothered to try to figure out who's sending these, as they just get deleted with all my other spam. However, 
the fact that I keep getting this stuff (i.e., Symantec hasn't succeeded in shutting them down, whoever they are) 
doesn't reflect well on Symantec.

John

In a message dated 2/7/2003 1:43:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Mike Heitz" <mikeheitz () upshotmail com> writes:

> That's almost as bad as the amount of SPAM I receive advertising the
> Chubb Institute and DeVry University. Let's see... you claim to teach IT
> yet you offend every IT person on the planet by spamming them???
> Ingenious approach!
>
> mike heitz ** sr it manager ** UPSHOT
> 312-943-0900 x5190
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alaskan () telusplanet net [mailto:alaskan () telusplanet net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:35 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Spam from Symantec
>
> Is anyone on this e-mail continually getting spam e-mails about Norton
> System Works 2003? I would think that this would be a scam to try and
> get credit card numbers etc... If it was legitimate, I think I will
> switch to linux sooner than planned.