Re: (OT) : What happened (again) to ibmAV ?

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 14:31:12 EST

Typical of Symantec to buy the competition and kill it..
all to the benefit of ....

Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Mendelson" <emendelson_at_compuserve.com>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: (OT) : What happened (again) to ibmAV ?

> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/cgi-bin/navsarc.cgi says that the
> definitions won't be available after April 2000, so it seems that they
> finally got around to removing them about eight months late!
>
>
> Says
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sylvestre Meininger" <sylme_at_free.fr>
> To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:26 AM
> Subject: (OT) : What happened (again) to ibmAV ?
>
>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > A few weeks ago, someone kindly posted the following address :
> >
> >
>
(ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/ibmav
> /)
> >
> > Where I found and downloaded what was then the latest update to ibmAV
> (av30gg.zip)
> > Unfortunately, the /ibmav/ directory has been deleted.
> >
> > Has it been moved elsewhere (I couldn't find it there) ? Or does this
mean
> IBM/Symantec have finally killed this
> > remarkable product, whose main qualities were efficiency, low Hdisk
space,
> simplicity and... being free.
> >
> > Thanks for any information !
> >
> > sylvestre meininger
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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