Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:

"Dear Comcast Customer,
The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of your
computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.

A Bot, also referred to as malicious software or malware, is used to gain
control of your computer, typically without your knowledge. Online criminals
can use Bots to collect your personal and private data, such as Social
Security numbers, bank account information, and/or credit card numbers by
monitoring your keystrokes. This can lead to identity theft and fraud.

We strongly recommend you go to the Comcast Constant Guard Center at
https://constantguard.comcast.net for instructions to help you remove the
Bot from your computer(s). We also advise that you keep your computer(s)
protected by performing regular Operating System updates and by using Norton
Security Suite anti-virus software.

If you would like to learn more about Constant Guard, please visit
http://security.comcast.net/constantguard.


Sincerely,

Comcast Customer Security Assurance"

tom wrote:

> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:
>
> "Dear Comcast Customer,
> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of
> your computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.

You've just made a total fool of yourself, by announcing to the world
that your ISP has determined that a computer you own at home is infected
with malware and is part of a botnet - and you obviously didn't know
it. How does it feel that your ISP knows more about your computers than
you do?

And what's worse, you're improperly understanding comcrap's e-mail to
you primarily as a solicitation to download AV software instead of what
the e-mail is really telling you - that you're a failure at being a
competent computer user by failing to keep malware off your computer.

Congratulations - you are now officially part of the problem.

Read the following to enlighten yourself:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r248...-Guard-Program

On Dec 7, 4:36*pm, "tom" <9@~.com> wrote:
> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:
>
> "Dear Comcast Customer,
> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of your
> computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.
>
> A Bot, also referred to as malicious software or malware, is used to gain
> control of your computer, typically without your knowledge. Online criminals
> can use Bots to collect your personal and private data, such as Social
> Security numbers, bank account information, and/or credit card numbers by
> monitoring your keystrokes. This can lead to identity theft and fraud.
>
> We strongly recommend you go to the Comcast Constant Guard Center athttps://constantguard.comcast.netfor instructions to help you remove the
> Bot from your computer(s). We also advise that you keep your computer(s)
> protected by performing regular Operating System updates and by using Norton
> Security Suite anti-virus software.
>
> If you would like to learn more about Constant Guard, please visithttp://security.comcast.net/constantguard.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Comcast Customer Security Assurance"

If you're interested, I have one up that is free and available for
anybody to use @ http://www.tot-ltd.org/TT-Livescan.rar. The current
version makes use of 3 databases (blacklist, whitelist and default
port list) that has a combined total of over 40 million definitions.
The download is only 100KB in size (uncompressed to approximately
1.7MB in size). You will need winrar, and a few vb6 runtime files
installed.

Virus Guy wrote:
> tom wrote:
[snip]
> Congratulations - you are now officially part of the problem.
>
> Read the following to enlighten yourself:
>
>
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r248...-Guard-Program

Did you read it? It basically says you 'may' have a bot. One guy running
Linux with a clean system got the same bs warning from Comcast.
Sounds more like a promotional deal (SPAM) than anything eles.
Don't you actually think so?
Buffalo

"Virus Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> tom wrote:
>
>> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:
>>
>> "Dear Comcast Customer,
>> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of
>> your computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.
>
> You've just made a total fool of yourself, by announcing to the world
> that your ISP has determined that a computer you own at home is infected
> with malware and is part of a botnet - and you obviously didn't know
> it. How does it feel that your ISP knows more about your computers than
> you do?

You've got more confidence in comcrap than I do. I'm not sure who the naive
fool is here.

tom wrote:
>
> "Virus Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> tom wrote:
>>
>>> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:
>>>
>>> "Dear Comcast Customer,
>>> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of
>>> your computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.
>>
>> You've just made a total fool of yourself, by announcing to the world
>> that your ISP has determined that a computer you own at home is infected
>> with malware and is part of a botnet - and you obviously didn't know
>> it. How does it feel that your ISP knows more about your computers than
>> you do?
>
> You've got more confidence in comcrap than I do. I'm not sure who the
> naive fool is here.

Indeed. If they had evidence of infestation, wouldn't just block the
offending client until it got cleaned - not try to sell them an AV program?

On Dec 9, 4:58*pm, FromTheRafters <erra...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> tom wrote:
>
> > "Virus Guy" <Vi...@Guy.com> wrote in message
> >news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> tom wrote:
>
> >>> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:
>
> >>> "Dear Comcast Customer,
> >>> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of
> >>> your computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.
>
> >> You've just made a total fool of yourself, by announcing to the world
> >> that your ISP has determined that a computer you own at home is infected
> >> with malware and is part of a botnet - and you obviously didn't know
> >> it. How does it feel that your ISP knows more about your computers than
> >> you do?
>
> > You've got more confidence in comcrap than I do. I'm not sure who the
> > naive fool is here.
>
> Indeed. If they had evidence of infestation, wouldn't just block the
> offending client until it got cleaned - not try to sell them an AV program?

NAV is free for CC users.

From: "Ron" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| On Dec 9, 4:58 pm, FromTheRafters <erra...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> tom wrote:

>> > "Virus Guy" <Vi...@Guy.com> wrote in message
>> >news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> tom wrote:

>> >>> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:

>> >>> "Dear Comcast Customer,
>> >>> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of
>> >>> your computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.

>> >> You've just made a total fool of yourself, by announcing to the world
>> >> that your ISP has determined that a computer you own at home is infected
>> >> with malware and is part of a botnet - and you obviously didn't know
>> >> it. How does it feel that your ISP knows more about your computers than
>> >> you do?

>> > You've got more confidence in comcrap than I do. I'm not sure who the
>> > naive fool is here.

>> Indeed. If they had evidence of infestation, wouldn't just block the
>> offending client until it got cleaned - not try to sell them an AV program?

| NAV is free for CC users.

So ?
Is it worth it even if its free ? Most would say, NO.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

On Dec 10, 5:12*pm, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...@Verizon.Net>
wrote:
> From: "Ron" <BigELil...@msn.com>
>
> | On Dec 9, 4:58 pm, FromTheRafters <erra...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> >> tom wrote:
> >> > "Virus Guy" <Vi...@Guy.com> wrote in message
> >> >news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> >> tom wrote:
> >> >>> Pretty sleazy way of trying to get me to DL their norton bloatware:
> >> >>> "Dear Comcast Customer,
> >> >>> The Constant GuardT service has identified that one or more of
> >> >>> your computers may be infected with a Bot. Please read on.
> >> >> You've just made a total fool of yourself, by announcing to the world
> >> >> that your ISP has determined that a computer you own at home is infected
> >> >> with malware and is part of a botnet - and you obviously didn't know
> >> >> it. How does it feel that your ISP knows more about your computers than
> >> >> you do?
> >> > You've got more confidence in comcrap than I do. I'm not sure who the
> >> > naive fool is here.
> >> Indeed. If they had evidence of infestation, wouldn't just block the
> >> offending client until it got cleaned - not try to sell them an AV program?
>
> | NAV is free for CC users.
>
> So ?
> Is it worth it even if its free ? *Most would say, NO.

That's not the point. The word "sell" was used. CC isn't trying to
sell NAV.

Also, I just read an article a couple of months ago that stated that
NAV 2010 is no longer a resource hog. In fact they did a side by side
comparison with Avira free and the results on resources were almost
identical.

From: "Ron" <(E-Mail Removed)>

>> | NAV is free for CC users.

>> So ?
>> Is it worth it even if its free ? Most would say, NO.

| That's not the point. The word "sell" was used. CC isn't trying to
| sell NAV.

| Also, I just read an article a couple of months ago that stated that
| NAV 2010 is no longer a resource hog. In fact they did a side by side
| comparison with Avira free and the results on resources were almost
| identical.

I'm not so sure about that. It is a good marketing ploy not unlike the so-called tripple
play for $99.00/month but that's for one year and they don't tell you what it will cost 12
months later only but they are eager to tell you "but you can cancel". Yeah AFTER you
have it installed and you are used to it. Same way with NAV. You'll pay AFTER its
initial free period which I'm sure is in the fine print. I'm sure there is some form of
percentage that Comcast makes from Symantec either for the number of downloads or the
number of users who eventually pay for the product.

Glad that they compared NAV's resource utilization and its improved. Too bad NAV's catch
rate hasn't.

--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp