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Ok...here's somthing for the history books, lol.

My brother use to use my computer, then he built his own a while ago and installed norton antivirus on it.

Well the norton just expired the other week, and my brother got an email from Symantec saying the usual "Please upgrade or renew your current Norton Anti-Virus software for continued protections."

My brother replied asking for them to not contact him and that he wasn't interested in upgrading at the moment.

Symantec replied with "For the safety of your computer, it is highly suggested that you upgrade or renew."

Again, my brother replied "No thank you."

You'd think that would be the end of this tale...but it gets better.

The other day my brother was online and his firewall lit up with the warning that someone was trying to send him a virus.

He opened up the firewall and checked it out and saw that someone was trying to send him a trojan.

He took the IP and traced it back...and here's the end to this tale...

The IP traced back to Symantec.


LOL


Those dirty virus-protection-pushing monsters!

Hehe - sounds a bit dodgy if you ask me (but funny!!). I'd guess it's more likely that symantec have a security hole & someone proxied the trojan via them. I'd certainly get back to symantec thogh - maybe he'll get free updates for pointing out thier problem

Damn.. Id be on the horn with them immediately. Id email those logs off to whomever I got on the phone with. Proxy or not, Id raise hell!