Pet Peeves -- The Stupidity of Virus Detection Software

Here's another brilliant "feature" that the great minds of the software business have come up with -- a little note in your email that assures you that there are no viruses here! Take a look at this little gem:

(headers deleted to protect the stupid)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0016----=_NextPart_000_0016
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Do not visit this illegal websites!

+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ MC-Afee AntiVirus - www.mcafee.com


------=_NextPart_000_0016----=_NextPart_000_0016
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
	name="abuselist.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
	filename="abuselist.zip"

UEsDBAoAAAAAAHovBTGjiB3egHMAAIBzAABUAAAAZGV0YWlscy50eHQgICAgICAgICAgICAg
ICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg
ICAucGlmTVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Well I know I'm totally and completely reassured that there are no viruses found there!

Just for laughs, I used to put this in my signature line:

The virus on this computer wishes to assure you that there are no
viruses in this email.  Nope, no viruses here, that's for sure!
Click on the attachment to confirm the virus-free nature of this email!

I don't think too many people got it :-(