symantec on S Anand

Zero dollar suit

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:00:00 +0000

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

JPEG virus

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:00:00 +0000

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

Good bad and ugly viruses

Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:00:00 +0000

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

Navidad.exe

Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:00:00 +0000

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.