[87115] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.D.McKinney)
Sun Dec 4 14:09:13 2005
From: "W.D.McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:06:24 -0900
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0512040957290.2588@jvc>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Todd Vierling
> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 5:58 AM
> To: W.D.McKinney
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)
>
>
> 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.)
>
Since when? I disagree.
-Dee
