Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

Sun Dec 4 19:06:24 UTC 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Todd Vierling
> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:58 AM
> To: W.D.McKinney
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)
> 
> 
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> 
> > >Can people building virus scanning devices PLEASE GET A %^&*^ CLUE?
> > >This means you, Barricuda Networks, more than anyone else, but we
> > >also see this annoyance from Symantec devices, and from some AOL
> > >systems as well.
> >
> > It's a simple switch in the GUI of Barracuda Networks to turn of this
> > annoyance. More operator error than Barracuda's fault, IMHO.
> 
> If it is on by default, it is a bug, and not operator error.
> 
> (Virus "warnings" to forged addresses are UBE, plain and simple.)
> 

Since when? I disagree.

-Dee