staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

2008-02-05

mikereed [05-Feb-2008 @ 00:40]

Filed under: clients @ 00:40 +00:00

:: 05-Feb-2008 00:40 GMT (Tuesday) ::

Dear friends,

We have recently been in communication with a number of vendors of anti-virus
software, regarding their false detections of dnetc. Many of them have been
brought around to our point of view that dnetc is benign, peaceful and able to
happily co-exist on a busy workstation. Our attempts to bring McAfee around to
our point of view have failed, despite our best efforts.

We would like to re-open hailing frequencies with McAfee and we need your help
to do this. On their site is a page describing dnetc as a ‘potentially unwanted
program’. You can see it here:- http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100867.htm

At the side of the page is a link ‘Rate This Potentially Unwanted Program’. We
would like as many of you as possible to visit the page and let McAfee know
that dnetc should not be detected.

We remain grateful for your continued support and enthusiasm.

Moo! ]:8)