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Tearing Apart a Hard-Sell Anti-Virus Ad
climenole writes "I came across an email sent by a security vendor, reminding me, no urging me with the liver-transplant sort of urgency, to renew my subscription to their product, lest my pixels perish. I spent a minute or two staring at the email, thinking about all the poor souls out there who do not have the comfort of being a geek and who may actually take the advertisement seriously." That led to this insightful deconstruction of these over-the-top ads, the kind that make it hard to keep straight the malware makers and the anti-malware makers.
"My Windows PC is unimpaired by ANY of their products."
My Linux PC is unimpaired by Windows products.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
How are you posting into the future? Can you send us some of those colour changing t-shirts? Maybe we could trade for the Friends DVDs.