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

Sat Dec 3 08:27:09 UTC 2005

On 12/3/05, Daniel Senie <dts at senie.com> 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.

The worst offenders that I see -

MailMarshal
eSafe
Symantec devices, as you say

Comparatively little from Barracudas.

And some large carriers / ISPs who send bounces / virus notifications
back with (for example) notexist@[isp] as the return path instead of
MAIL FROM:<>