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How secure is CA's security mailing list?

Spam? No problem!

By John Leyden • Get more from this author

Posted in Security, 2nd May 2001 20:45 GMT

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More than 60,000 subscribers to CA's anti-virus alert email list received a spam message this morning.

Is this what media types call "viral marketing"? Or does it mark the failure of CA to implement content filtering software on its own supposedly moderated mailing list?

CA is the developer of eTrust which is, it claims, the industry's most comprehensive security portfolio. ®

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