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Hotbar threatened to sue Symantec over its anti adware software. Symantec filed back a zero dollar lawsuit against Hotbar. “Until yesterday, adware and spyware makers could send out threatening letters with almost no downside,” said Edelman as he put the Symantec court case into perspective. “Nothing bad would happen to them, and maybe something good would happen, maybe the anti-spyware vendor would give in and remove them from their database.” Comments munish 10 Jun 2005 11:42 am: me in amsterdam..could call you up sometimes Amandeep 10 Jun 2005 5:03 pm: lets meet up sometime munish 13 Jun 2005 2:34 pm: give me your number

A “JPEG virus”. (Note: The JPEG file itself isn’t the virus. You don’t have to stop sending JPEGs.)

Viruses are bad. But some are good, and others, ugly (hoaxes, that is).

I received a file called Navidad.exe a few days ago and stupidly ran it. Turned out to be a virus that killed the system. Google produced no answers to searches on “Navidad.exe virus” except a posting on egroups – in Spanish. A translation through Babelfish almost yielded readable material and I was able to fix it. Symantec’s AV Center has a cure.