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

Rich Kulawiec rsk at gsp.org
Tue Dec 6 01:25:47 UTC 2005


On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 03:18:29PM -0800, Steve Sobol wrote:
> Blocking based on rDNS simply because it implies that a certain piece of 
> equipment is at that address is... not advisable.

Agreed.  Those blocks aren't in place because there's a certain piece
of equipment at those addresses (hostnames); they're in place because
all of them have emitted spam.

---Rsk



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