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

Sun Dec 4 19:13:17 UTC 2005

On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:06 PM, 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.

While we can argue whether it is UBE, it is a pretty dumb move I  
think we can all agree.. ;-)