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- From: mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates)
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Common misconception (was: Re: VET as good as Viruscan? (PC))
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 02:36:31 GMT
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- AMN@vms.brighton.ac.uk (Anthony Naggs) writes:
- <message deleted>
- >Oh, while I am being rude about McAfee, any suggestions as to what
- >will happen to Viruscan if the "big one" hits LA?
-
- This is a quite common misconception that I would like to clear up.
- McAfee Associates is located in Santa Clara, a city at the southern
- end of the San Francisco Bay. We are some 330 miles (530km) north of
- Los Angeles, about the distance from London to Luxembourg or Perth to
- Rawlinna.
-
- Any geologic activity (flooding, earthquakes, giant radioactive ants
- from the bowels of the earth, etc.) affecting Los Angeles is not going
- to have any physical impact on the northern portion of California.
-
- In case of an earthquake or other event that leaves us stranded
- without power for several days, we do have enough laptops to keep the
- programmers working although we will have to shut down our technical
- support, customer support, order processing, and other non-essential
- (well, lower priority, perhaps) services. Of course, given that our
- communication links (fax, telephone, BBS, internet, postal mail) will
- be down as way until the restoration of services, these may not have
- as much impatct as you thought.
-
- Oh, we do also have a network of agents both domestic (inside the U.S.
- and Canada) and international, so anyone could contact them for
- support, etc., but the home office would be down for a day or two
- (during the October, 1990 earthquake, we were "disconnected from the
- electronic world" for about 36 hours).
-
- Regards,
-
- Aryeh Goretsky
- McAfee Associates Technical Support
-
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