Re: Another new worm???

[slayer67 () APK NET (Dino Amato)]

just ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/AntiVirusDefs/
and you get it all updates here, even when Liveupdate says you need to
renew, you 1 year is up ;)
Dino

----- Original Message -----
From: Crispin Cowan <crispin () WIREX COM>
To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: Another new worm???

> aleph1 () securityfocus com wrote:
>
> > > Dan:  do you have any comment on why commercial AV vendors charge for
the
> > > initial product and give away the service, instead of the other way
around?
> > In my experience, most AV companies charge a subscription fee now a
days. You
> > get a one year free subscription with the product and must pay after
that.
> > So you are basically paying for both the product and the service.
>
> I've been using Norton AV for NT for my VMWare machine.  Because I don't
let
> NT anywhere near the Internet :-) I have to go to the web and manually
download
> my updates from the Norton site via Netscape/Linux.  If you go to this
site
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/cgi-bin/navsarc.cgi it appears to not
have any
> kind of authentication required to download the update file (which is just
a .exe
> that you run to update your profiles).
>
> So they may be *intending* to charge me for the service, but they're not
> achieving that :-)
>
> Crispin
>
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