Re: Fwd: GWAVA Sender Notification (Content filter)

[James Tucker <jftucker () gmail com>]

marketing is a "wonderful" thing.

On 5/10/05, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 02:32:41 BST, James Tucker said:
> > Surely this kind of message is a really bad idea.
>
> You know it, I know it, and the A/V vendors know it.
>
> > What is the possible true business value of such a filter?
>
> The true business value is for the A/V vendor, who can blat out a
> free spam to the forged MAIL FROM: address (which is probably scraped off
> a disk by the worm/virus and therefor likely an actual address.
>
> In this case, the bozos at GWAVA can spam you about finding something they
> didn't consider acceptable.
>
> > What is the potential impact upon security to disclose the information
> > that this mail does?
>
> It demonstrates that the site running it is lame enough to still be running
> A/V software that spams people.
>
> > What is the cost of deployment of this system against the costs
> > related to it's potential, and actual effects?
>
> The GWAVA people don't care. They've been paid for the product already, and
> they're not the ones paying for the bandwidth.
>
> Remember - you're talking here about a market segment *founded* on the business
> model that *partially* patching some other vendor's broken software will lead
> to a permanent gravy train. Once you've wrapped your brain around the morals
> and ethics of that business model, it's obviously a very tiny step to spamming
> other people about the wonders of the product.
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