[87114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sun Dec 4 09:58:55 2005
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 09:58:20 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: "W.D.McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <W7058118155181801133570705@burger.akwireless.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
