RE: Spam from Symantec

[<Bruce.Orcutt () alltel com>]

The most ironic I find these days are the ones that start out "Get rid of SPAM now". 

As for the Systemworks emails, there was a write-up a few weeks ago, forget by who (could of been CNET), in which this 
was addressed.  

Apparently, a large number of surplus copies of Systemworks were purchased by some lesser known vendors who have 
nothing to do with Symantec itself.  These vendors are the ones who have been doing the spamming.  Symantec was 
questioned, and they officially stated they did not agree with the vendors sales tactics, but had little control over 
their actions.




-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Heitz [mailto:mikeheitz () upshotmail com]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:43 PM
To: alaskan () telusplanet net; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Spam from Symantec


That's almost as bad as the amount of SPAM I receive advertising the
Chubb Institute and DeVry University. Let's see... you claim to teach IT
yet you offend every IT person on the planet by spamming them???
Ingenious approach!

mike heitz ** sr it manager ** UPSHOT
312-943-0900 x5190

-----Original Message-----
From: alaskan () telusplanet net [mailto:alaskan () telusplanet net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:35 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Spam from Symantec

Is anyone on this e-mail continually getting spam e-mails about Norton
System Works 2003? I would think that this would be a scam to try and
get credit card numbers etc... If it was legitimate, I think I will
switch to linux sooner than planned.