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from: FROMTHERAFTERS
date: 2014-10-27 18:23:00
subject: Re: Notice to Appear, fro

Virus Guy pretended :
> Dustin wrote:
>  
>> You're expecting a magic bullet and I'm trying to explain to you
>
> No.  Not me.
>
> The vast, vast majority of people that buy Anti-virus software EXPECT
> THE ####ING SOFTWARE TO DETECT MALWARE.

This is partly because that is what the vendors want people to think. 
They call their programs 'solutions' when in fact they are just tools 
to aid the user in staying uninfected.

> And get it through you thick skull that the vast, vast, vast majority of
> people that buy antivirus software don't give a #### about the
> difference between viruses and trojans and worms and droppers.

It's a good thing that *they* aren't the ones trying to discuss malware 
in a newsgroup about viruses.

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