> 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

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