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

Steve Sobol sjsobol at JustThe.net
Sun Dec 4 23:18:29 UTC 2005


Rich Kulawiec wrote:

> And thus we now have blacklist entries such as:
> 
> 	barracuda1.aus.texas.net
> 	barracuda.yale-wrexham.ac.uk
> 	barracuda.morro-bay.ca.us
> 	barracuda.ci.mtnview.ca.us
> 	barracuda.elbert.k12.ga.us
> 	barracuda.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us
> 	barracuda.ci.garner.nc.us
> 	barracuda.ship.k12.pa.us
> 
> and many, many more.

Blocking based on rDNS simply because it implies that a certain piece of 
equipment is at that address is... not advisable.

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