> Which suggests that one approach would be to create such demand. Or at > least the appearance of such demand. Maybe we should all start making > requests to sales departments: > > "Hi, I was evaluating AV products for purchase. I notice that while many > are capable of warnings the senders of infected e-mail, it seems that some > are unable to distinguish viruses that fake the sender address, and so > send out warnings to innocent third parties. I don't want to be the victim > of a defamation case from such a third party, so can you assure me that > your product can distinguish such viruses, and differentiate its actions > based on the virus type?"
An excellent idea. And far better than writing rants to mailing-lists about the issue :-) +Pete